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Page 18
... speech , that some of the greatest ancients have been guilty of it , and that ARISTOTLE himself has given it a place in his Rhetoric among the beauties of that art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it is , I think at present ...
... speech , that some of the greatest ancients have been guilty of it , and that ARISTOTLE himself has given it a place in his Rhetoric among the beauties of that art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it is , I think at present ...
Page 46
... speech , is a noble circumstance , and very finely imagined . The division of hell into seas of fire , and into firm ground impregnated with the same furious element , with that particular circumstance of the exclusion of Hope from ...
... speech , is a noble circumstance , and very finely imagined . The division of hell into seas of fire , and into firm ground impregnated with the same furious element , with that particular circumstance of the exclusion of Hope from ...
Page 49
... speeches and behaviour in the second and sixth book . The account of THAMMUZ is finely romantic , and suitable to what we read among the ancients of the worship which was paid to that idol . 66 -THAMMUZ came next behind , Whose annual ...
... speeches and behaviour in the second and sixth book . The account of THAMMUZ is finely romantic , and suitable to what we read among the ancients of the worship which was paid to that idol . 66 -THAMMUZ came next behind , Whose annual ...
Page 81
... speeches and actions , is , with great justice and delicacy , adapted to the persons who speak and act . As the poet very much excels in this consistency of his characters , I shall beg leave to consider several passages of the second ...
... speeches and actions , is , with great justice and delicacy , adapted to the persons who speak and act . As the poet very much excels in this consistency of his characters , I shall beg leave to consider several passages of the second ...
Page 83
... speech which he makes to SATAN , on their supposed advantage over the enemy . As his appearance is uniform , and of a piece , in these three several views , we find his sentiments in the infernal assembly every way conformable to his ...
... speech which he makes to SATAN , on their supposed advantage over the enemy . As his appearance is uniform , and of a piece , in these three several views , we find his sentiments in the infernal assembly every way conformable to his ...
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