A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1757 - 76 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... character ; which , tho ' fometimes the garb of reafon , is oftener , I believe , the mask of dullness , or of something worse . No , I am too fenfible to the charms , nay to the uses of your pro- feffion , to affect a contempt for it ...
... character ; which , tho ' fometimes the garb of reafon , is oftener , I believe , the mask of dullness , or of something worse . No , I am too fenfible to the charms , nay to the uses of your pro- feffion , to affect a contempt for it ...
Pagina 6
... Character , and Education of the fuppos'd Imitator . We can determine with little certainty , how far the principal Greek writers have been indebted to Imitation . We trace the waters of Helicon no higher than to their fource . And we ...
... Character , and Education of the fuppos'd Imitator . We can determine with little certainty , how far the principal Greek writers have been indebted to Imitation . We trace the waters of Helicon no higher than to their fource . And we ...
Pagina 12
... CHARACTER of the writer ? A poet , enamoured of himself , and who fets up for a great inventive genius , thinks much to profit by the sense of his predeceffors , and even when he fteals , takes care to diffemble his thefts and to ...
... CHARACTER of the writer ? A poet , enamoured of himself , and who fets up for a great inventive genius , thinks much to profit by the sense of his predeceffors , and even when he fteals , takes care to diffemble his thefts and to ...
Pagina 14
... Character . When all these cir- cumftances meet in one man , as they have done in others , but in none perhaps so eminently as in B. John- fon , wherever you find an acknowledged likeness , you will do him no injustice to call it ...
... Character . When all these cir- cumftances meet in one man , as they have done in others , but in none perhaps so eminently as in B. John- fon , wherever you find an acknowledged likeness , you will do him no injustice to call it ...
Pagina 18
... characters . Had the scene been laid originally in England , and that trait been given us , it had convicted the poet of Imitation . 3. This attention to the genius of a people will fometimes fhew You , that the form of compofition , as ...
... characters . Had the scene been laid originally in England , and that trait been given us , it had convicted the poet of Imitation . 3. This attention to the genius of a people will fometimes fhew You , that the form of compofition , as ...
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