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Pagina 247
... elegance of description and justness of precepts he had now exhibited bound- less fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the ma- chinery with the action as his most successful exer- tion of poetical art . He ...
... elegance of description and justness of precepts he had now exhibited bound- less fertility of invention . He always considered the intermixture of the ma- chinery with the action as his most successful exer- tion of poetical art . He ...
Pagina 354
... elegance . One refinement always makes way for another ; and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope . I suppose many readers of the English Iliad , when they have been touched with some unex- pected beauty of the lighter ...
... elegance . One refinement always makes way for another ; and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope . I suppose many readers of the English Iliad , when they have been touched with some unex- pected beauty of the lighter ...
Pagina 386
... elegance , collect female phrases and fashionable barbarisms , and imagine that style to be easy which custom has made familiar . Such was the idea of the poet who wrote the following verses to a countess cutting paper : Pallas grew vap ...
... elegance , collect female phrases and fashionable barbarisms , and imagine that style to be easy which custom has made familiar . Such was the idea of the poet who wrote the following verses to a countess cutting paper : Pallas grew vap ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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