Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 pages |
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... taste must admire the following stanza ; the French bard abounds with strains of equal beauty . " Montrez nous , guerrièrs magnanimes ! Votres vertus dans tout leur jour ; Voyons comment vos cœurs sublimes Du sort soutiendront le rétour ...
... taste must admire the following stanza ; the French bard abounds with strains of equal beauty . " Montrez nous , guerrièrs magnanimes ! Votres vertus dans tout leur jour ; Voyons comment vos cœurs sublimes Du sort soutiendront le rétour ...
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... taste for poetry , by his feelings on perusing , for the first time , the Lyci- das of Milton : would not his feelings , when he first pe- rused the Mask of Comus , afford a better criterion ? Every verse of Gray is imprinted in the ...
... taste for poetry , by his feelings on perusing , for the first time , the Lyci- das of Milton : would not his feelings , when he first pe- rused the Mask of Comus , afford a better criterion ? Every verse of Gray is imprinted in the ...
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... taste and candour . It is however true , that he often generalizes while Homer dwells in particulars ; that he too frequent- ly expresses the whole , while Homer expresses a part only of what he wishes his readers to understand ; and ...
... taste and candour . It is however true , that he often generalizes while Homer dwells in particulars ; that he too frequent- ly expresses the whole , while Homer expresses a part only of what he wishes his readers to understand ; and ...
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... taste and dis- cernment , if he had been accustomed to literary composition . Both Bolingbroke and Swift poured unpremeditated lines ; but , with all its beauty , the style of the former is very loose ; he pleases rather by his vivid ...
... taste and dis- cernment , if he had been accustomed to literary composition . Both Bolingbroke and Swift poured unpremeditated lines ; but , with all its beauty , the style of the former is very loose ; he pleases rather by his vivid ...
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... taste were de- sired to frame , each of them , a list of the ten most entertaining works which they had read . One work only found its way into every list . - It may amuse the reader to guess it . - He will not be surprised to find it ...
... taste were de- sired to frame , each of them , a list of the ten most entertaining works which they had read . One work only found its way into every list . - It may amuse the reader to guess it . - He will not be surprised to find it ...
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