MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF EDWARD GIBBON, Esquire: WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, COMPOSED BY HIMSELF: ILLUSTRATED FROM HIS LETTERS.J. J. Tourneisen, 1797 - 224 стор. |
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... thofe reviews , totally difap- pear , in order to make room for characters more effen- tial to the action . An epic poet stands not in need of fo . dull and vulgar an expedient for making the reader acquainted with his true heroes . A ...
... thofe reviews , totally difap- pear , in order to make room for characters more effen- tial to the action . An epic poet stands not in need of fo . dull and vulgar an expedient for making the reader acquainted with his true heroes . A ...
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... thofe princes occupied the Palatine , while the other reigned over the Aventine Mount . This is impoffible ; for Evander fhows the Aventine to Eneas , which was a barren rock ' , fituate in his little kingdom , which had no other ...
... thofe princes occupied the Palatine , while the other reigned over the Aventine Mount . This is impoffible ; for Evander fhows the Aventine to Eneas , which was a barren rock ' , fituate in his little kingdom , which had no other ...
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... thofe of a man who is continually ftriving to be fublime , and continually ftruggling against his own genius in favor of his fubject . I am perfuaded that Silius would have judged better in taking Ovid than Virgil for his model ...
... thofe of a man who is continually ftriving to be fublime , and continually ftruggling against his own genius in favor of his fubject . I am perfuaded that Silius would have judged better in taking Ovid than Virgil for his model ...
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... thofe nations were be- bome frictly Roman , and had exactly conformed to the laws , enfigns , and difcipline of the republic ; a vast but uniform object , which was better fitted for fuggefting reflections to a philofopher , than for ...
... thofe nations were be- bome frictly Roman , and had exactly conformed to the laws , enfigns , and difcipline of the republic ; a vast but uniform object , which was better fitted for fuggefting reflections to a philofopher , than for ...
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... From fuch an exam . ple , no general confequence can be deduced . The fame may be faid of thofe rapid and extra- ordinary journies of which the ancients fometimes make mention . How wide is the difference between the DETACHED PIECES .
... From fuch an exam . ple , no general confequence can be deduced . The fame may be faid of thofe rapid and extra- ordinary journies of which the ancients fometimes make mention . How wide is the difference between the DETACHED PIECES .
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