The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... fome illustration , if he be compared with his master . To regulate the scale , by which the comparative merit of poetical pretenfions is to be estimated , is one of the most difficult undertakings of criticism . Something of this kind ...
... fome illustration , if he be compared with his master . To regulate the scale , by which the comparative merit of poetical pretenfions is to be estimated , is one of the most difficult undertakings of criticism . Something of this kind ...
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... fome advantages accruing from a ge- nius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self - amusement when a man is idle or alone ; the privilege of being ad- mitted into the best company ; and the freedom of ...
... fome advantages accruing from a ge- nius to poetry , and they are all I can think of : the agreeable power of self - amusement when a man is idle or alone ; the privilege of being ad- mitted into the best company ; and the freedom of ...
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... fome account of this kind of Poem ; and it is my defign to comprife in this short paper the fub- ftance of those numerous differtations the Critics have made on the fubject , without omitting any of their rules in my own favour . You ...
... fome account of this kind of Poem ; and it is my defign to comprife in this short paper the fub- ftance of those numerous differtations the Critics have made on the fubject , without omitting any of their rules in my own favour . You ...
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... fome knowledge in rural affairs is discovered + This may be made to appear ra- ther done by chance than on defign , and fome- times is beft fhewn by inference ; left by too much tudy to feem natural , we destroy that easy fim- plicity ...
... fome knowledge in rural affairs is discovered + This may be made to appear ra- ther done by chance than on defign , and fome- times is beft fhewn by inference ; left by too much tudy to feem natural , we destroy that easy fim- plicity ...
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... fome fpark of your celeftial fire , The last , the meaneft of your fons infpire , ( That , on weak wings , from far pursues your flights , Glows while he reads , but trembles as he writes ) To teach vain wits a fcience little known , T ...
... fome fpark of your celeftial fire , The last , the meaneft of your fons infpire , ( That , on weak wings , from far pursues your flights , Glows while he reads , but trembles as he writes ) To teach vain wits a fcience little known , T ...
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