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Page ix
... original error have been long felt . It hath occafioned a constant per- plexity in defining the general method , and in fixing the import of particular rules . Nay its effects have reached still further . For conceiv- ing , as they did ...
... original error have been long felt . It hath occafioned a constant per- plexity in defining the general method , and in fixing the import of particular rules . Nay its effects have reached still further . For conceiv- ing , as they did ...
Page ix
... original : though both flourished at the fame time , and are both wholly Roman . I. The former , or DIDACTIC epiftle , was , in fact , the true and proper offspring of the SA- TIRE . It will be worth while to reflect how this happened ...
... original : though both flourished at the fame time , and are both wholly Roman . I. The former , or DIDACTIC epiftle , was , in fact , the true and proper offspring of the SA- TIRE . It will be worth while to reflect how this happened ...
Page xi
... 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 , querulous humour of mankind ; which , under the preffure of any grief ...
... 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 , querulous humour of mankind ; which , under the preffure of any grief ...
Page 51
... original fiction . " Apply now this fenfe of junctura to words ; and we are only told , that expreffion may be fo ordered as to appear new , when the words , of which it is made up , are all known and common . We have then the authority ...
... original fiction . " Apply now this fenfe of junctura to words ; and we are only told , that expreffion may be fo ordered as to appear new , when the words , of which it is made up , are all known and common . We have then the authority ...
Page 75
... original forms ; and are , each , the perfect copies of other . All which will be clearly understood by apply- ing these general obfervations to the inftances in view . The paffion of ANGER rouzes all the native fire and energy of the ...
... original forms ; and are , each , the perfect copies of other . All which will be clearly understood by apply- ing these general obfervations to the inftances in view . The paffion of ANGER rouzes all the native fire and energy of the ...
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