A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1757 - 76 ページ |
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... Genius , perhaps with a larger fhare of it than has fallen to the lot of others , yet directly and chiefly by the difcipline of art and the helps of Imitation . There is however a diftinction to be made . When the fathers of the English ...
... Genius , perhaps with a larger fhare of it than has fallen to the lot of others , yet directly and chiefly by the difcipline of art and the helps of Imitation . There is however a diftinction to be made . When the fathers of the English ...
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... genius , that has taken with the public . Do you think one needed to be told in the title - page , that a late DRAMA , or fome later ODES were form'd on the ancient model ? The drift of all this , you will fay , is to overturn the ...
... genius , that has taken with the public . Do you think one needed to be told in the title - page , that a late DRAMA , or fome later ODES were form'd on the ancient model ? The drift of all this , you will fay , is to overturn the ...
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... genius did not dif- dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man has fo copiously tranflated Homer's " Grecisms , and the Latin elegancies of Virgil . ” Nay ...
... genius did not dif- dain to stoop to imitation . You affent , I dare fay , to Dryden's compliment , tho ' it be an invidious one , " That no man has fo copiously tranflated Homer's " Grecisms , and the Latin elegancies of Virgil . ” Nay ...
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... genius , thinks much to profit by the sense of his predeceffors , and even when he fteals , takes care to diffemble his thefts and to conceal them as much as poffible . You know I have inftanced in fuch a poet in Sir William D'Avenant ...
... genius , thinks much to profit by the sense of his predeceffors , and even when he fteals , takes care to diffemble his thefts and to conceal them as much as poffible . You know I have inftanced in fuch a poet in Sir William D'Avenant ...
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... Genius of one people given to an- " other . " " 1. Plautus gives us the following true picture of the Greek manners . -In hominum ætate multa eveniunt hujusmodi Iræ interveniunt , redeunt rurfum in gratiam , Verùm ita fiquæ fortè ...
... Genius of one people given to an- " other . " " 1. Plautus gives us the following true picture of the Greek manners . -In hominum ætate multa eveniunt hujusmodi Iræ interveniunt , redeunt rurfum in gratiam , Verùm ita fiquæ fortè ...
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23 ページ - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
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33 ページ - Superior beings, when of late they faw A mortal Man unfold all Nature's Law, Admir'd fuch wifdom in an earthly fhape, And fhew'da NEWTON as we fhew an Ape. Could he, whofe rules the rapid Comet bind, 35 Defcribe or fix one movement of his Mind ? Who faw its fires here rife, and there...