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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... true poetical character , and no succeeding age has improved on any of them . Was he , then , the inventor of them ? -This exceeds human power . Was he prece- ded by other bards , upon whom he refined , and whom he transcendently ...
... true poetical character , and no succeeding age has improved on any of them . Was he , then , the inventor of them ? -This exceeds human power . Was he prece- ded by other bards , upon whom he refined , and whom he transcendently ...
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... true raciness of the Latian soil ? The Reminiscent recollects the little real admiration with which , when he was at Douay , he read the Olyn- thiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes , and the preference which he then gave to Cicero ; but ...
... true raciness of the Latian soil ? The Reminiscent recollects the little real admiration with which , when he was at Douay , he read the Olyn- thiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes , and the preference which he then gave to Cicero ; but ...
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... true poetic cha- racter than , - ( unless we should except Raçine ) , - has been bestowed on any of his countrymen . His works are little known in this country ; a selection of them , - ( for , unfortunately , several are highly ...
... true poetic cha- racter than , - ( unless we should except Raçine ) , - has been bestowed on any of his countrymen . His works are little known in this country ; a selection of them , - ( for , unfortunately , several are highly ...
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... true poetic character is spread over all their poems those of Cowper are particularly set off by a general tinge of religious and moral melancholy , which adds to their effect ; but a multitude of his lines are rough , —a multitude ...
... true poetic character is spread over all their poems those of Cowper are particularly set off by a general tinge of religious and moral melancholy , which adds to their effect ; but a multitude of his lines are rough , —a multitude ...
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... 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 that , by describing common things ...
... 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 that , by describing common things ...
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