A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey. West's Pindar. Dryden's Virgil. Persius & Juvenal. Pitt's Aeneid. Rowe's LucanJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1792 |
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Page iii
... thofe are imperfect or neglected , this to which the invention must not contribute : as can overpower criticifin , and make us admire in the most regular gardens , art can only reduce even while we difapprove . Nay , where this ap- the ...
... thofe are imperfect or neglected , this to which the invention must not contribute : as can overpower criticifin , and make us admire in the most regular gardens , art can only reduce even while we difapprove . Nay , where this ap- the ...
Page iv
... thofe innumerable knowledges , thofe fecrets of nature and physical philosophy , which Homer is generally fuppofed to have wrapped up in his allegories , what a new and ample fcene of wonder may this confideration afford us ! how fer ...
... thofe innumerable knowledges , thofe fecrets of nature and physical philosophy , which Homer is generally fuppofed to have wrapped up in his allegories , what a new and ample fcene of wonder may this confideration afford us ! how fer ...
Page vii
... thofe times and manners are fo much the more excellent , as they are more con- trary to ours . " Who can be fo prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of thofe ages , when a fpirit of revenge and cruelty , joined with the ...
... thofe times and manners are fo much the more excellent , as they are more con- trary to ours . " Who can be fo prejudiced in their favour as to magnify the felicity of thofe ages , when a fpirit of revenge and cruelty , joined with the ...
Page viii
... thofe that followed : and in purfuance of this principle , they make thofe accidents ( fuch as the contention of the cities , & c . ) to be the caufes of his fame , which were in reality the confequences of his merit . The fame might as ...
... thofe that followed : and in purfuance of this principle , they make thofe accidents ( fuch as the contention of the cities , & c . ) to be the caufes of his fame , which were in reality the confequences of his merit . The fame might as ...
Page ix
... thofe times , is by no means fo to ours : but one may wait for opportunities of placing VOL . XII . 14 | tisfied I can no way better oblige men. For a farther preservation of this air of fimpli- city , a particular care fhould be taken ...
... thofe times , is by no means fo to ours : but one may wait for opportunities of placing VOL . XII . 14 | tisfied I can no way better oblige men. For a farther preservation of this air of fimpli- city , a particular care fhould be taken ...
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