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Page ii
... taste as your Lordship . It is needless to my sing to your Lordship about the other par * . alone can plead from 4 through this work . nance , since they emselves . selves . I went a view of pleas- ing every body ; and publish it in ...
... taste as your Lordship . It is needless to my sing to your Lordship about the other par * . alone can plead from 4 through this work . nance , since they emselves . selves . I went a view of pleas- ing every body ; and publish it in ...
Page vi
... taste , who alone know the diffi- culties which attend such an undertaking , and will be impar- tial enough to give the translator the necessary indulgence . Longinus himself was never accurately enough published , nor thoroughly ...
... taste , who alone know the diffi- culties which attend such an undertaking , and will be impar- tial enough to give the translator the necessary indulgence . Longinus himself was never accurately enough published , nor thoroughly ...
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... taste , of a sound and penetrat- ing judgment , it will lead him to such me- thods of thinking , as are the innocent and embellishing amusements of life ; as a Philoso- pher of enlarged and generous sentiments , a friend to virtue , a ...
... taste , of a sound and penetrat- ing judgment , it will lead him to such me- thods of thinking , as are the innocent and embellishing amusements of life ; as a Philoso- pher of enlarged and generous sentiments , a friend to virtue , a ...
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... taste , that they appointed him judge of all the ancient authors , and learned to dis- tinguish between the genuine and spurious productions of antiquity , from his opinions and sentiments about them . He was looked upon by theni as ...
... taste , that they appointed him judge of all the ancient authors , and learned to dis- tinguish between the genuine and spurious productions of antiquity , from his opinions and sentiments about them . He was looked upon by theni as ...
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... taste . He was not so surly as to reject the sentiments of others without examination , but he had the wisdom to stick by his own . Let us pause a little here , and consider what a disagreeable and shocking contrast there is between the ...
... taste . He was not so surly as to reject the sentiments of others without examination , but he had the wisdom to stick by his own . Let us pause a little here , and consider what a disagreeable and shocking contrast there is between the ...
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Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and ... No preview available - 2020 |
Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and ... Longinus No preview available - 2018 |
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