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Page 88
Whatever decision we may feel it to be our critical duty to give on the success of the original attempt here laid before the public ... Mr. Smith has attempted to form entire plays out of selections from different Grecian dramas .
Whatever decision we may feel it to be our critical duty to give on the success of the original attempt here laid before the public ... Mr. Smith has attempted to form entire plays out of selections from different Grecian dramas .
Page 406
... must appear in the style which attempts to imitate Horace , or to transfuse his peculiar elegancies into another tongue . ... his own “ curious felicity and recondite graces , render the attempt itself ridiculous .
... must appear in the style which attempts to imitate Horace , or to transfuse his peculiar elegancies into another tongue . ... his own “ curious felicity and recondite graces , render the attempt itself ridiculous .
Page 485
It is not a difficult task to represent the virtues and the merits of the dead in such a light that they shall almost appear to assimilate to vices , but the attempt will scarcely meet with credit when it is contra . dicted by the ...
It is not a difficult task to represent the virtues and the merits of the dead in such a light that they shall almost appear to assimilate to vices , but the attempt will scarcely meet with credit when it is contra . dicted by the ...
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