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... precept , on poetical diftribution , is delivered , as of import- tance : [ Ordinis haec virtus erit et venus , aut egs fallar . ] And fuch indeed it is : for , 1. It respects no less than the conftitution of a whole , i . e . the re ...
... precept , on poetical diftribution , is delivered , as of import- tance : [ Ordinis haec virtus erit et venus , aut egs fallar . ] And fuch indeed it is : for , 1. It respects no less than the conftitution of a whole , i . e . the re ...
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... Precept had in view , but , as the context fhews , and as is further apparent froin 1. 150 , where this topic is refumed , and treated more at large , the epos and the drama . With what propriety then is a rule of fuch dig- nity ...
... Precept had in view , but , as the context fhews , and as is further apparent froin 1. 150 , where this topic is refumed , and treated more at large , the epos and the drama . With what propriety then is a rule of fuch dig- nity ...
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... precept before us by examples taken from his writings . But first it will be proper to explain the pres cept itself as given by Horace . His critics feem not at all to have appre- hended the force of it . Dacier and Sanadon , the two ...
... precept before us by examples taken from his writings . But first it will be proper to explain the pres cept itself as given by Horace . His critics feem not at all to have appre- hended the force of it . Dacier and Sanadon , the two ...
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... 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 ; and not of the grace of novelty which fingle words ...
... 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 ; and not of the grace of novelty which fingle words ...
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... precept , let us see how well it may be exempli- fied in the practice of Shakespeare . 1. The firft example of this artful management , if it were only in complaifance to former com- mentators , mentators , fhall be that of compound ...
... precept , let us see how well it may be exempli- fied in the practice of Shakespeare . 1. The firft example of this artful management , if it were only in complaifance to former com- mentators , mentators , fhall be that of compound ...
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