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Page ix
... EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but of two kinds ; one of which may be called the DIDACTIC ; the other , the ELEGIAC epiftle . By the FIRST I mean all those epiftles , whose end is to inftruct ; whether ...
... EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but of two kinds ; one of which may be called the DIDACTIC ; the other , the ELEGIAC epiftle . By the FIRST I mean all those epiftles , whose end is to inftruct ; whether ...
Page xi
... epistle , the ELEGIAC ; which , as I obferved , had quite another original . For this apparently fprung up from what is properly called the Elegy : a poem of very ancient Greek extraction : naturally arifing from the plaintive ...
... epistle , the ELEGIAC ; which , as I obferved , had quite another original . For this apparently fprung up from what is properly called the Elegy : a poem of very ancient Greek extraction : naturally arifing from the plaintive ...
Page xv
... Epistle to the Pifos , in the way of continued commentary upon it . And , that the coherence of the feveral parts may be the more diftin & tly feen , the Commentary is rendered as concife as poffible ; fome of the finer and lefs obvious ...
... Epistle to the Pifos , in the way of continued commentary upon it . And , that the coherence of the feveral parts may be the more diftin & tly feen , the Commentary is rendered as concife as poffible ; fome of the finer and lefs obvious ...
Page 22
... epistle ; the de- sign of which , as hath been obferved , was to reprove an incorrectness and want of care in the Roman writers . For , having juft obferved their defect , he goes on , in the remaining part of the epiftle , to fum up ...
... epistle ; the de- sign of which , as hath been obferved , was to reprove an incorrectness and want of care in the Roman writers . For , having juft obferved their defect , he goes on , in the remaining part of the epiftle , to fum up ...
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... epistle , as having turned principally on art and rales without infifting much on natural energy , the poet obviates at once [ from 1. 408 to 419 ] by reconciling two things which were held , it seems , incompatible , and demanding in ...
... epistle , as having turned principally on art and rales without infifting much on natural energy , the poet obviates at once [ from 1. 408 to 419 ] by reconciling two things which were held , it seems , incompatible , and demanding in ...
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