The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Том 1 |
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Indeed the subject was fit only for an ode , and might have furnished materials for a very fine one , if Mr. Addison had possessed the talents of a lyric poet . However , particular passages are wrought up into much life and beauty .
Indeed the subject was fit only for an ode , and might have furnished materials for a very fine one , if Mr. Addison had possessed the talents of a lyric poet . However , particular passages are wrought up into much life and beauty .
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But we cannot meet with a better instance of the extravagance and wantonness of Ovid's fancy , than in that particular circumstance at the end of the story , of Narcissus's NOTES ON OVID'S METAMORPHOSES . 151.
But we cannot meet with a better instance of the extravagance and wantonness of Ovid's fancy , than in that particular circumstance at the end of the story , of Narcissus's NOTES ON OVID'S METAMORPHOSES . 151.
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He ought in particular to be careful of not letting his subject debase his style , and betray him into a meanness of expression , but everywhere to keep up his verse in all the pomp of numbers and dignity of words .
He ought in particular to be careful of not letting his subject debase his style , and betray him into a meanness of expression , but everywhere to keep up his verse in all the pomp of numbers and dignity of words .
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After this particular account of the beauties in the Georgics , I should in the next place endeavour to point out its imperfections , if it has any . But though I think there are some few parts in it that are not so beautiful as the ...
After this particular account of the beauties in the Georgics , I should in the next place endeavour to point out its imperfections , if it has any . But though I think there are some few parts in it that are not so beautiful as the ...
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The simile , as fine as it is , had been cold and trivial , if no particular mountain had been specified ; and none could be so properly and gracefully specified in a simile addressed to Syphax , as Mount Atlas .
The simile , as fine as it is , had been cold and trivial , if no particular mountain had been specified ; and none could be so properly and gracefully specified in a simile addressed to Syphax , as Mount Atlas .
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