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Page viii
... characters , than his highest merit deserved . It was to cherish and improve that tafte of polite letters , which his early care had inftilled into you , that you required me to explain to you the following exquifite piece of the best ...
... characters , than his highest merit deserved . It was to cherish and improve that tafte of polite letters , which his early care had inftilled into you , that you required me to explain to you the following exquifite piece of the best ...
Page ix
... character of the old fatire . But , principally , becaufe , on any other fuppofition , it does not appear , what could give Lucilius a claim to that high appellation of INVENTOR of this poem . That he was the first , who copied the ...
... character of the old fatire . But , principally , becaufe , on any other fuppofition , it does not appear , what could give Lucilius a claim to that high appellation of INVENTOR of this poem . That he was the first , who copied the ...
Page xi
... character of the elegy , contrived [ d ] a new kind of poetry without the expence of much invention , or labour to him . felf . For collecting , as it were , those scattered : [ c ] Marorem minui , fays Tully , grieving for the lofs of ...
... character of the elegy , contrived [ d ] a new kind of poetry without the expence of much invention , or labour to him . felf . For collecting , as it were , those scattered : [ c ] Marorem minui , fays Tully , grieving for the lofs of ...
Page xv
... character , in the fulleft light , before the view of the reader , I have at- tempted to explain the Epistle to the Pifos , in the way of continued commentary upon it . And , that the coherence of the feveral parts may be the more ...
... character , in the fulleft light , before the view of the reader , I have at- tempted to explain the Epistle to the Pifos , in the way of continued commentary upon it . And , that the coherence of the feveral parts may be the more ...
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... character of the speaker : thus one fort of expreffion will become the angry , another , the forrowful ; this , the ... CHARACTERS , which are of two forts . 1. Old ones , revived : and 2 . Invented , or new ones , In relation to the ...
... character of the speaker : thus one fort of expreffion will become the angry , another , the forrowful ; this , the ... CHARACTERS , which are of two forts . 1. Old ones , revived : and 2 . Invented , or new ones , In relation to the ...
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