Elements of Criticism, Volume 3A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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Page 17
... beauty and va- riety : He scarce had ceas'd , when the fuperior fiend Was moving toward the fhore ; his pond'rous shield , Ethereal temper , maffy , large , and round , Behind him caft ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders ...
... beauty and va- riety : He scarce had ceas'd , when the fuperior fiend Was moving toward the fhore ; his pond'rous shield , Ethereal temper , maffy , large , and round , Behind him caft ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders ...
Page 39
... beauty to recommend it . The subject is Amata the wife of King Latinus . Tum vero infelix , ingentibus excita monftris , Immenfam fine more furit lymphata per urbem : Ceu quondam torto volitans fub verbere turbo , Quem pueri magno in ...
... beauty to recommend it . The subject is Amata the wife of King Latinus . Tum vero infelix , ingentibus excita monftris , Immenfam fine more furit lymphata per urbem : Ceu quondam torto volitans fub verbere turbo , Quem pueri magno in ...
Page 63
... ings male and female , gives thus a fine opportunity for the profopopoeia ; a beauty unknown in other languages , where every word is mafculine or feminine . day , day , the morn , are here understood to be Sect . I. 63 FIGURES .
... ings male and female , gives thus a fine opportunity for the profopopoeia ; a beauty unknown in other languages , where every word is mafculine or feminine . day , day , the morn , are here understood to be Sect . I. 63 FIGURES .
Page 71
... beauty and delight is chang'd , No rofes bloom upon my fading cheek , No laughing graces wanton in my eyes ; But haggard Grief , lean - looking fallow Care , And And pining Discontent , a rueful train , Dwell on Sect . I. 71 FIGURES ...
... beauty and delight is chang'd , No rofes bloom upon my fading cheek , No laughing graces wanton in my eyes ; But haggard Grief , lean - looking fallow Care , And And pining Discontent , a rueful train , Dwell on Sect . I. 71 FIGURES ...
Page 98
... beauty in a more advantageous light , than the whole of this much - laboured poem . Up rofe the fun , and up rofe Emelie . SE C T. IV . The means or inftrument conceived to be the agent , IN N viewing a group of things , we have ...
... beauty in a more advantageous light , than the whole of this much - laboured poem . Up rofe the fun , and up rofe Emelie . SE C T. IV . The means or inftrument conceived to be the agent , IN N viewing a group of things , we have ...
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