... carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling... The Spectator. ... - Page 1591712Full view - About this book
| John Milton - English poetry - 1750 - 674 pages
...are alfo two kinds of thoughts which are carefully to be avoided. The firlt are fuch as are afFe&ed and unnatural; the fecond fuch as are mean and vulgar....that is like them in Virgil : He has none of thofe trifling points and puerilities that are fo often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatic... | |
| John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...are fuch as arc affected and unnatural; the fecond fuch as .-ire mean and vulgar. As for the tirft kind of thoughts we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : He has none of thofc trifling points and puerilities that arc fo often to be met with in Ovid, 'none of the epigrammatic... | |
| John Milton, William Dodd - 1762 - 284 pages
...heroic Poem, there are alfo two Kinds of Thoughts which are carefully to be avoided. The firft are iuch as are affefted and unnatural ; the fecond fuch as...that is like them in Virgil : He has none of thofe trifling Points and Puerilities .that are fo often to be met with in Ovid, none of the Epigrammatic... | |
| William Dodd, Joseph Addison - 1762 - 264 pages
...are alfo two Kinds of Thoughts which are carefully to be avoided. The firit are ,fuch as are affe&ed and unnatural ; the fecond fuch as are mean and vulgar....that is like them in Virgil ; He has none of thofe trifling Points and Puerilities that are fo often to be met with in Ovid, none of the Epigrammatic... | |
| John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...unnatural ; the fccond fuch as are mean and vulgar. As for the firft kind of thoughts we meet with Kttle or nothing that is like them in Virgil : He has none of thofe trifling points and puerilities that are fo often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatic... | |
| English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...are alfo two kinds of thoughts which arc carefully to be avoided. The firft are fuch as are arfected and unnatural, the fecond fuch as are mean and vulgar....that is like them in Virgil ; he has none of thofe trifling points and puerilities that are fa often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatic... | |
| Virgil - 1778 - 526 pages
...natural and the fublime, which are always to be purfued in an heroic poem, there are alfo (fays Addifon) two kinds of thoughts which are carefully to be avoided....nothing that is like them in Virgil. He . • -has has mme of thofe trifling points and puerilities, that aró fo often to be met with in Ovid, none of... | |
| 1778 - 336 pages
...of thoughts which are carefully. to be avoided. The firft are fuch as are affected and unnatural f the fecond fuch as are mean and vulgar. As for the...that is like them in Virgil : he has none of thofe triffing points and puerilities that are fo often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatic... | |
| 1786 - 694 pages
...which are carefully to be avoided. The fii ft arc fuch as are affeiled and unnatural; »he fécond fuch as are mean and vulgar. As for the firft kind...or nothing that is like them in Virgil: he has none ofthole trifling points and puerilities that are fo often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatic... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...unnatural; the second such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts we meet wiih littl; or nothing that is like them in Virgil: he has none of those trifling points and puerilities that are so often to be met with in Ovid, none of the epigrammatic... | |
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