The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 56Tobias George Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall., 1783 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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Page 49
... several inftances of the fublime from the Scriptures ; from the writings of Homer , Offian , Milton ; Virgil ; and gives us fome examples of the faults oppofite to the fublime , which , he obferves ; are chiefly two , the frigid and the ...
... several inftances of the fublime from the Scriptures ; from the writings of Homer , Offian , Milton ; Virgil ; and gives us fome examples of the faults oppofite to the fublime , which , he obferves ; are chiefly two , the frigid and the ...
Page 115
... Several writers + have taken notice of a conceit in Tafso's Aminta ; and , among others , Mr. Addifon , Guard . No. 38 . But our author defends the Italian poet . • Taffo's Sylvia , fays he , makes no fuch ridiculous figure as Mr ...
... Several writers + have taken notice of a conceit in Tafso's Aminta ; and , among others , Mr. Addifon , Guard . No. 38 . But our author defends the Italian poet . • Taffo's Sylvia , fays he , makes no fuch ridiculous figure as Mr ...
Page 190
... several occafions his lordship reminds us of the vener able old Neftor , and takes notice of incidents , which he would have paffed over in filence , if he had not been writing on a favourite topic ; fuch as the compliments which were ...
... several occafions his lordship reminds us of the vener able old Neftor , and takes notice of incidents , which he would have paffed over in filence , if he had not been writing on a favourite topic ; fuch as the compliments which were ...
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