Critical Essays, 1770Scolar Press, 1973 - 328 |
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... genius in an author naturally elevated , but unrefined by the rules of art . Courage in the former is little more than brutality ; fublimity in the latter nothing but bombaft . LONGINUS Confutes the opinion of those , who think ...
... genius in an author naturally elevated , but unrefined by the rules of art . Courage in the former is little more than brutality ; fublimity in the latter nothing but bombaft . LONGINUS Confutes the opinion of those , who think ...
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... genius , which is esteemed little better than a Phaeton , who fets the world of literature on fire . Influenced however by the example of an- tiquity , a value fhould be fet , by modern opinion , upon poetical fuperiority . If a manly ...
... genius , which is esteemed little better than a Phaeton , who fets the world of literature on fire . Influenced however by the example of an- tiquity , a value fhould be fet , by modern opinion , upon poetical fuperiority . If a manly ...
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... genius , like the fun , fhed a more foftering radiance , where they fall in a direct courfe ; while their powers are gradually weakened with their obliquity . Our author's comparison between DEMOST THENES and HYPERIDES may be ...
... genius , like the fun , fhed a more foftering radiance , where they fall in a direct courfe ; while their powers are gradually weakened with their obliquity . Our author's comparison between DEMOST THENES and HYPERIDES may be ...
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admirable ÆNEAS Æneid affect againſt almoſt ANCHISES ancient ANTILOCHUS becauſe beſt cenfure character cife compariſon compofition confideration confiftently conftruction conftrued courſe critic criticiſm DEMOSTHENES deſcribed deſcription DIDO difpofition elegant Engliſh epic epiſode eſtabliſhed eſteem EURYTION excellent exerciſed exertions expreffed expreffion facrifice faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fentiment feveral fhall firft firſt folemn fome former foul fpirit fubject fublimity fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior genius Grecian hero HERODOTUS himſelf hiſtory HOMER honor Hyperbaton Iliad indulged inftance inſpired itſelf JOSEPH WARTON judgement laft laſt latter leaſt lefs leſs LONGINUS Lufus mafter ment merits MNESTHEUS moft moſt muft muſt nature NISUS numbers obferve occafion OVID paffage paffion perfon poet poetical poetry preſent racter reaſon reflection repreſentation repreſented Roman Section ſeems ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſpeak ſpeech ſuch thefe themſelves THEOCRITUS theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tranflation Trojan ufually unleſs uſe uſually verfe verſes VIRGIL whofe whoſe words writer καὶ