The ramblerPafraets Book Company, 1903 - 358 pages |
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Page 190
... criticks considered the disposition of syllables , and had himself given hopes of some metrical observations upon the great Roman poet ; but being the first who undertook to display the beauties , and point out the defects of Milton ...
... criticks considered the disposition of syllables , and had himself given hopes of some metrical observations upon the great Roman poet ; but being the first who undertook to display the beauties , and point out the defects of Milton ...
Page 204
... criticks on " Paradise Lost " have , without much deliberation , commended Milton for continuing it . But one language cannot communi- cate its rules to another . We have already tried and rejected the hexometer of the ancients , the ...
... criticks on " Paradise Lost " have , without much deliberation , commended Milton for continuing it . But one language cannot communi- cate its rules to another . We have already tried and rejected the hexometer of the ancients , the ...
Page 227
... criticks , how far they can be estab- lished upon nature and reason , and on what occasions they have been practised by Milton . Homer , the father of all poetical beauty , has been particularly celebrated by Dionysius of Halicarnas ...
... criticks , how far they can be estab- lished upon nature and reason , and on what occasions they have been practised by Milton . Homer , the father of all poetical beauty , has been particularly celebrated by Dionysius of Halicarnas ...
Page 228
... critick then proceeds to shew , that the efforts of Achilles struggling in his armour against the current of a river , sometimes resisting and some- times yielding , may be perceived in the elisions of the syllables , the slow ...
... critick then proceeds to shew , that the efforts of Achilles struggling in his armour against the current of a river , sometimes resisting and some- times yielding , may be perceived in the elisions of the syllables , the slow ...
Page 234
... criticks to inquire very studiously and minutely into sounds and cadences . It is , therefore , useful to examine with ... critick , and raise the passions in rebellion against the judgment . His catalogue , though large , is imperfect ...
... criticks to inquire very studiously and minutely into sounds and cadences . It is , therefore , useful to examine with ... critick , and raise the passions in rebellion against the judgment . His catalogue , though large , is imperfect ...
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