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Pagina 66
... subject to have strongly fixed the pub- lick attention . In the two first dialogues Bayes is brought into the company of Crites and Eugenius , with whom he had formerly debated on dramatick poetry . The two talkers in the third are Mr ...
... subject to have strongly fixed the pub- lick attention . In the two first dialogues Bayes is brought into the company of Crites and Eugenius , with whom he had formerly debated on dramatick poetry . The two talkers in the third are Mr ...
Pagina 143
... subject is susceptible ; acrimony of cenfure , elegance of praife , artful delineation of cha- racters , variety and vigour of fentiment , happy turns of language , and pleasing har- mony of numbers ; and all these raised to fuch a ...
... subject is susceptible ; acrimony of cenfure , elegance of praife , artful delineation of cha- racters , variety and vigour of fentiment , happy turns of language , and pleasing har- mony of numbers ; and all these raised to fuch a ...
Pagina 151
... subject is rather argumenta- tive than poetical : he intended only a spe- cimen of metrical difputation .. And this unpolish'd rugged verfe I chofe , As fitteft for difcourfe , and nearest profe . L4 This , This , however , is a ...
... subject is rather argumenta- tive than poetical : he intended only a spe- cimen of metrical difputation .. And this unpolish'd rugged verfe I chofe , As fitteft for difcourfe , and nearest profe . L4 This , This , however , is a ...
Pagina 153
... subject , used to mention this poem as the most correct specimen of Dryden's verfification . It was indeed writ- ten when he had completely formed his manner , and may be fuppofed to exhibit , negligence excepted , his deliberate and ...
... subject , used to mention this poem as the most correct specimen of Dryden's verfification . It was indeed writ- ten when he had completely formed his manner , and may be fuppofed to exhibit , negligence excepted , his deliberate and ...
Pagina 158
... subject , added to the ridiculousness of its first elements , has funk it into neglect ; but it may be usefully stu- died , as an example of poetical ratiocination , in which the argument fuffers little from the metre , In the poem on ...
... subject , added to the ridiculousness of its first elements , has funk it into neglect ; but it may be usefully stu- died , as an example of poetical ratiocination , in which the argument fuffers little from the metre , In the poem on ...
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