Poems on Several Subjects, Volume 1G. Pearch, 1769 - Classical poetry |
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Page vi
... reprefented as purfu- ing Hector around the walls of his native city , the POET , who renders all nature interested in the deeds of Achilles , mentions mentions one circumstance wonderfully calculated to raise our ideas both vi PREFACE .
... reprefented as purfu- ing Hector around the walls of his native city , the POET , who renders all nature interested in the deeds of Achilles , mentions mentions one circumstance wonderfully calculated to raise our ideas both vi PREFACE .
Page viii
... poetic compofition , and indeed in all works whatever where Imagination is predominant , certain liberties are taken , in order to preferve an high ftile of colouring , which , though indeed effential to , and characteristical of the ...
... poetic compofition , and indeed in all works whatever where Imagination is predominant , certain liberties are taken , in order to preferve an high ftile of colouring , which , though indeed effential to , and characteristical of the ...
Page ix
... poetic beauty fubfifts , than where there is a mo- derate or a small proportion of it . Thus a man , actuated by ... Poets , as true Genius is but rare , True tafle as feldom is the Critic's fhare . It is plain that our Critic must be ...
... poetic beauty fubfifts , than where there is a mo- derate or a small proportion of it . Thus a man , actuated by ... Poets , as true Genius is but rare , True tafle as feldom is the Critic's fhare . It is plain that our Critic must be ...
Page xv
... it about . Let us try , by the fame rules , a celebrated passage in the most correct English Poet that ever wrote . Let me ( fays Pope , felking of Iporus ) Flap their aim with precipitance , overshoot the mark , at PREFAC E. XV.
... it about . Let us try , by the fame rules , a celebrated passage in the most correct English Poet that ever wrote . Let me ( fays Pope , felking of Iporus ) Flap their aim with precipitance , overshoot the mark , at PREFAC E. XV.
Page xvi
... POET , who fpeaks not only of failing , but of " fteering upon a fhade ? " What fen- tence would he pass upon a man ... Poets therefore Miton ! xvi PREFACE .
... POET , who fpeaks not only of failing , but of " fteering upon a fhade ? " What fen- tence would he pass upon a man ... Poets therefore Miton ! xvi PREFACE .
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