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Page 36
... Dacier's Introd . Remarks to the Art of Poetry . ] The softest thing that can be faid of fuch a critic , is , that he well deferves the cenfure , he fo juftly applied to the great Scaliger , s'IL L'AVOIT BIEN .ENTENDU , IL LUI AUROIT ...
... Dacier's Introd . Remarks to the Art of Poetry . ] The softest thing that can be faid of fuch a critic , is , that he well deferves the cenfure , he fo juftly applied to the great Scaliger , s'IL L'AVOIT BIEN .ENTENDU , IL LUI AUROIT ...
Page 43
... Dacier that prodigialiter is here used in a good fenfe , yet the word is fo happily chofen by our curious fpeaker , as to carry the mind to that fictitious monfter , under which he had before allufively fhadowed out the idea of abfurd ...
... Dacier that prodigialiter is here used in a good fenfe , yet the word is fo happily chofen by our curious fpeaker , as to carry the mind to that fictitious monfter , under which he had before allufively fhadowed out the idea of abfurd ...
Page 49
... Dacier and Sanadon , the two beft of them , confine it merely to the formation of compound words ; which , though one way in which this callida junctura fhews itself , is by no means the whole of what the poet in- tended by it . Their ...
... Dacier and Sanadon , the two beft of them , confine it merely to the formation of compound words ; which , though one way in which this callida junctura fhews itself , is by no means the whole of what the poet in- tended by it . Their ...
Page 50
... Dacier has a reafon of his own for confining the precept to this meaning . " The queftion , he says , is de verbis ferendis ; and therefore this junctura must be explained of new words , properly fo called , as compound epithets are ...
... Dacier has a reafon of his own for confining the precept to this meaning . " The queftion , he says , is de verbis ferendis ; and therefore this junctura must be explained of new words , properly fo called , as compound epithets are ...
Page 72
... Dacier ; but why this fubject was fingled out , as the reprefentative of the reft , is not explained by him . We may be fure , it was not taken up at random . The rea- fon was , that the Thyeftes of Ennius was pecu- liarly chargeable ...
... Dacier ; but why this fubject was fingled out , as the reprefentative of the reft , is not explained by him . We may be fure , it was not taken up at random . The rea- fon was , that the Thyeftes of Ennius was pecu- liarly chargeable ...
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