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Page vii
... Criticks , who often form to themselves imaginary rules , which the Ancients never dreamed of , will not allow above ten or eleven out of the thirty Idyllia of that Author , to belong to that species of Poe- try . Those who would have a ...
... Criticks , who often form to themselves imaginary rules , which the Ancients never dreamed of , will not allow above ten or eleven out of the thirty Idyllia of that Author , to belong to that species of Poe- try . Those who would have a ...
Page viii
... Criticks , we fhall find , that no more than fix , out of the eleven firft Idyllia of Theocritus are to be admitted into the number . The like objections have been , or may be , framed against most of the Eclogues of Virgil . But there ...
... Criticks , we fhall find , that no more than fix , out of the eleven firft Idyllia of Theocritus are to be admitted into the number . The like objections have been , or may be , framed against most of the Eclogues of Virgil . But there ...
Page x
... Criticks . Theocri- tus certainly intended to defcribe the manners of the Herdmen of Sicily . His Idyllia are generally either Dialogues between two perfons of that cha- racter ; or Poems in praife of the celebrated acti- ons of Gods ...
... Criticks . Theocri- tus certainly intended to defcribe the manners of the Herdmen of Sicily . His Idyllia are generally either Dialogues between two perfons of that cha- racter ; or Poems in praife of the celebrated acti- ons of Gods ...
Page xi
... Criticks to be Paftorals : but the tenth is ufu- ally excluded , being a dialogue between two Reapers . And yet perhaps , if we confider , that a herdman may very naturally describe a conver- fation between two of his country neighbours ...
... Criticks to be Paftorals : but the tenth is ufu- ally excluded , being a dialogue between two Reapers . And yet perhaps , if we confider , that a herdman may very naturally describe a conver- fation between two of his country neighbours ...
Page xiii
... Criticks may venture to let this pass without cenfure . Nor does there feem any good reafon to reject the fifteenth ; tho ' there is not a word in it about cattle ; and though the scene is not laid in the paftures of Sicily ; but in the ...
... Criticks may venture to let this pass without cenfure . Nor does there feem any good reafon to reject the fifteenth ; tho ' there is not a word in it about cattle ; and though the scene is not laid in the paftures of Sicily ; but in the ...
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