The Monthly review. New and improved ser, 77. köide1787 |
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... known Wo- man , & c . Vol I. MEMOIRES de l'Academie Royale des Sciences , & c . de Berlin , pour 1784 , 472 327 of the Medical Society , 357 550 d'Agriculture , & c . for the Years 1785 and 1786 , 581 MERRY's Paulina , a Poem , 325 ...
... known Wo- man , & c . Vol I. MEMOIRES de l'Academie Royale des Sciences , & c . de Berlin , pour 1784 , 472 327 of the Medical Society , 357 550 d'Agriculture , & c . for the Years 1785 and 1786 , 581 MERRY's Paulina , a Poem , 325 ...
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... known art of that Poet in accommodating the fongs of the chorus to the main fubject , and his care , Ne quid medios intercinat actus , Quod non propofito conducat , et hæreat aptè , we are convinced that by Tois 2010s , the Critic must ...
... known art of that Poet in accommodating the fongs of the chorus to the main fubject , and his care , Ne quid medios intercinat actus , Quod non propofito conducat , et hæreat aptè , we are convinced that by Tois 2010s , the Critic must ...
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... known peculiarities of this writer's diction ; the general refult of which is , that , in defcribing familiar objects , Thomfon , in the midst of all his excellencies , often produces bombaft on the one hand , or mean- nefs on the other ...
... known peculiarities of this writer's diction ; the general refult of which is , that , in defcribing familiar objects , Thomfon , in the midst of all his excellencies , often produces bombaft on the one hand , or mean- nefs on the other ...
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... known calamities of the Alexandrian library , but many more , it is to be feared , have had no remaining witness to relate them . Hiftorians , therefore , efpecially fuch as profefs to give the univerfal hiftory of the world , ought to ...
... known calamities of the Alexandrian library , but many more , it is to be feared , have had no remaining witness to relate them . Hiftorians , therefore , efpecially fuch as profefs to give the univerfal hiftory of the world , ought to ...
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... known . He had his hip broken ; but whether they did not confider his wound as mortal , or that they were heated by the battle , and ftill irritated at the menaces thrown out against them a few hours before , the Americans could not ...
... known . He had his hip broken ; but whether they did not confider his wound as mortal , or that they were heated by the battle , and ftill irritated at the menaces thrown out against them a few hours before , the Americans could not ...
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Page 211 - Verse varied with pauses and accents, in modern languages, — they are all equally removed from nature, and equally a violation of common speech. When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment, there is another principle in the human mind, to which the work must be referred, which still renders it more artificial, carries it still further from common nature, and deviates only to render it more perfect. That...
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