Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... fine libidinum . " Horace , Carm . 1. 3. ode 16 . Difcernunt avidi . Horace , Carm . I. 1. ode 18 .. Ac fpem fronte ferenat . Eneid iv . 477 There : There is want of neatnefs even in an ambiguity fo 16 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
... fine libidinum . " Horace , Carm . 1. 3. ode 16 . Difcernunt avidi . Horace , Carm . I. 1. ode 18 .. Ac fpem fronte ferenat . Eneid iv . 477 There : There is want of neatnefs even in an ambiguity fo 16 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
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... Eneid , I. v . 507 . The following paffage of Tacitus appears to me not fo happy . It approaches to wit by connecting in the foregoing manner things but flightly related , which in 18 Ch . XVIII . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . amples of ...
... Eneid , I. v . 507 . The following paffage of Tacitus appears to me not fo happy . It approaches to wit by connecting in the foregoing manner things but flightly related , which in 18 Ch . XVIII . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . amples of ...
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... Eneid . iii . 614 . Where two things are fo connected as to require but a copulative , it is pleasant to find a resemblance in the members of the period , were it even fo flight as where both begin with the fame letter : The peacock ...
... Eneid . iii . 614 . Where two things are fo connected as to require but a copulative , it is pleasant to find a resemblance in the members of the period , were it even fo flight as where both begin with the fame letter : The peacock ...
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... Eneid . iv . 593 ; Eneid . ix . 36 . Quis globus , O Cives , caligine volvitur atra ? Ferte citi ferrum , date tela , fcandite muros . Hoftis adeft , eja . ~ ' In this view Longinus * justly compares copula- tives in B 4 In Sect . II ...
... Eneid . iv . 593 ; Eneid . ix . 36 . Quis globus , O Cives , caligine volvitur atra ? Ferte citi ferrum , date tela , fcandite muros . Hoftis adeft , eja . ~ ' In this view Longinus * justly compares copula- tives in B 4 In Sect . II ...
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... Eneid , gives us the punishment , & c . Spectator , No. 90 : Better thus : Virgil , who in the fixth book of his neid has caft , & c . And Philip the Fourth was obliged at last to con- clude a peace , on terms repugnant to his ...
... Eneid , gives us the punishment , & c . Spectator , No. 90 : Better thus : Virgil , who in the fixth book of his neid has caft , & c . And Philip the Fourth was obliged at last to con- clude a peace , on terms repugnant to his ...
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