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Page 173
... sublime of Plato to the humour of Menander . W. If Addifon's verses are heavy , as is afferted in this note , yet has he difplayed ( for I muft repeat the affertion ) a great power of true poetic imagination , in his Vifion of Mirza ...
... sublime of Plato to the humour of Menander . W. If Addifon's verses are heavy , as is afferted in this note , yet has he difplayed ( for I muft repeat the affertion ) a great power of true poetic imagination , in his Vifion of Mirza ...
Page 398
... Sublime of the Iliad which marches on with a conftant pace , without " ever being flopped , or retarded : there appears no " more that hurry and that ftrong tide of motions and " paffions , pouring one after another ; there is no " more ...
... Sublime of the Iliad which marches on with a conftant pace , without " ever being flopped , or retarded : there appears no " more that hurry and that ftrong tide of motions and " paffions , pouring one after another ; there is no " more ...
Page 399
... Sublime of which Longinus is writing : that , and not the nature of Ho- mer's Poem , is his fubject . After having highly ex- tolled the fublimity and fire of the Iliad , he juftly ob- ferves the Odyffey to have lefs of thofe qualities ...
... Sublime of which Longinus is writing : that , and not the nature of Ho- mer's Poem , is his fubject . After having highly ex- tolled the fublimity and fire of the Iliad , he juftly ob- ferves the Odyffey to have lefs of thofe qualities ...
Page 400
... Sublime , Lon- ginus preferred the Iliad and because the Odyssey was lefs active and lofty , he judged it the work of the old age of Homer . If this opinion be true , it will only prove , that Ho- mer's age might determine him in the ...
... Sublime , Lon- ginus preferred the Iliad and because the Odyssey was lefs active and lofty , he judged it the work of the old age of Homer . If this opinion be true , it will only prove , that Ho- mer's age might determine him in the ...
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