The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 82
... numbers , as it could have been if the ftanzas were more regular , and written in the manner of Pindar . In this ode there is a wonderful fublimity of thought , a loftiness and fweetness of expreffion , and a moft pleafing variety of ...
... numbers , as it could have been if the ftanzas were more regular , and written in the manner of Pindar . In this ode there is a wonderful fublimity of thought , a loftiness and fweetness of expreffion , and a moft pleafing variety of ...
Page 368
... numbers of their enemies : but Diodorus Siculus , Plutarch , and others maintain , that the Grecians attacked the camp of Xerxes in the night , where they slew great numbers and put Xerxes to flight before they were furrounded ...
... numbers of their enemies : but Diodorus Siculus , Plutarch , and others maintain , that the Grecians attacked the camp of Xerxes in the night , where they slew great numbers and put Xerxes to flight before they were furrounded ...
Page 381
... numbers are , in many places diffonant and inharmonious . Little defects of this kind , however , ( which are no more than flaws in the colouring of a fine picture ) we may hope to fee removed in the next edition ; for we have the ...
... numbers are , in many places diffonant and inharmonious . Little defects of this kind , however , ( which are no more than flaws in the colouring of a fine picture ) we may hope to fee removed in the next edition ; for we have the ...
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