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Pagina 22
... virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripi- des , that he forces ...
... virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripi- des , that he forces ...
Pagina 39
... virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are in- debted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular ; and , though ...
... virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are in- debted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular ; and , though ...
Pagina 40
... may tell his own mo- tives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first pub . At Sadlers ' Hall . lic work was an heroic poem . He was not 40 BLACKMORE .
... may tell his own mo- tives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first pub . At Sadlers ' Hall . lic work was an heroic poem . He was not 40 BLACKMORE .
Pagina 42
... virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and ad- hered invariably to his principles and party through his ...
... virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and ad- hered invariably to his principles and party through his ...
Pagina 43
... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheap- side , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmin- gled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bank- ruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem ...
... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheap- side , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmin- gled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bank- ruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem ...
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