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Pagina 40
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flamma ...
... mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flamma ...
Pagina 43
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original thán the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode , entitled The ...
... mention of particulars is turned more upon the original thán the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode , entitled The ...
Pagina 47
... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in conversation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in " Mack Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I ...
... mention is made ; it never appears in books , nor emerges in conversation . By the Spectator it has been once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in " Mack Flecknoe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I ...
Pagina 70
... mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames , Though with those streams he no resemblance hold , Whose foam is ...
... mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which convey much meaning in few words , and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk . On the Thames , Though with those streams he no resemblance hold , Whose foam is ...
Pagina 77
... mentions his exile , proves like- wise that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a resolution of returning some time to Cam- bridge . And it may be conjectured , from the will- ingness with which he has perpetuated the memory of ...
... mentions his exile , proves like- wise that it was not perpetual ; for it concludes with a resolution of returning some time to Cam- bridge . And it may be conjectured , from the will- ingness with which he has perpetuated the memory of ...
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