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Pagina 6
... use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the burlesque ...
... use of it ; Fontaine , who imagined Rabelais to be the inventor of it , was the fixth au- thor who delivered it , as our Prior was the laft ; and perhaps not the least spirited . RABELAIS was not the inventor of many of the burlesque ...
Pagina 59
... use perhaps to chufe a low fubject . In this respect Virgil had the advantage over Lucretius ; the latter , with all his vigour and fublimity of genius , could hardly fatisfy and come up to the grandeur of his theme . POPE labours under ...
... use perhaps to chufe a low fubject . In this respect Virgil had the advantage over Lucretius ; the latter , with all his vigour and fublimity of genius , could hardly fatisfy and come up to the grandeur of his theme . POPE labours under ...
Pagina 65
... uses : when instead of seeing to the highest pendants , we see only fome lower deck , and are in this dark case of flesh , confined even to the hold and meaneft ftation of the veffel * . " I have inferted this paffage at length ...
... uses : when instead of seeing to the highest pendants , we see only fome lower deck , and are in this dark case of flesh , confined even to the hold and meaneft ftation of the veffel * . " I have inferted this paffage at length ...
Pagina 78
... skies . Which lines at prefent ftand thus , How inftinct varies in the grovling swine . Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine , Ver . 251 . Say Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 78 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... skies . Which lines at prefent ftand thus , How inftinct varies in the grovling swine . Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine , Ver . 251 . Say Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 78 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Pagina 79
Joseph Warton. Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , T ' infpect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n . Formerly it flood , No. Glf.confounding faculties to share ; No fenfes ftronger than his brain can bear . At prefent , No pow ...
Joseph Warton. Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , T ' infpect a mite , not comprehend the heav'n . Formerly it flood , No. Glf.confounding faculties to share ; No fenfes ftronger than his brain can bear . At prefent , No pow ...
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