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... poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which give them the highest pleasure , and which , therefore , poetry ought to exhibit . thority or ...
... poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which give them the highest pleasure , and which , therefore , poetry ought to exhibit . thority or ...
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... poetical numbers ; and even of the concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , humour , and ridicule , open likewise a variety of pleasures to taste , altogether different from any , that have yet been considered . At present it is ...
... poetical numbers ; and even of the concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , humour , and ridicule , open likewise a variety of pleasures to taste , altogether different from any , that have yet been considered . At present it is ...
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... poetical dress of language was at length laid aside in the inter- course of men , and reserved for those occa- sions only , on which ornament was professed- ly studied . RISE AND PROGRESS OF LANGUAGE AND OF WRITING . WHEN we examine the ...
... poetical dress of language was at length laid aside in the inter- course of men , and reserved for those occa- sions only , on which ornament was professed- ly studied . RISE AND PROGRESS OF LANGUAGE AND OF WRITING . WHEN we examine the ...
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... poetical language , if it were not distinguished by rhyme , would not be known to differ from their ordi- nary prose . Their language , however , surpass- es ours in expressing whatever is delicate , gay , and amusing . It is , perhaps ...
... poetical language , if it were not distinguished by rhyme , would not be known to differ from their ordi- nary prose . Their language , however , surpass- es ours in expressing whatever is delicate , gay , and amusing . It is , perhaps ...
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... poetical , is render- ed harsh and obscure by three distinct meta- phors crowded together . First , " arma uncta cruoribus nondum expiatis ; " next , " opus ple- num periculosa alex ; " and then , " incedis per- ignes suppositos cineri ...
... poetical , is render- ed harsh and obscure by three distinct meta- phors crowded together . First , " arma uncta cruoribus nondum expiatis ; " next , " opus ple- num periculosa alex ; " and then , " incedis per- ignes suppositos cineri ...
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