Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime:: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life, Writings and Character of the AuthorJ. Watts: and sold by W. Innys and R. Manby, 1739 - 187 pages |
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... thofe who might be un- able to read the Original , was the main Induce- ment to its Publication . The Treatise on the SUBLIME had slept for feveral Ages , covered up in the Duft of Li- braries , till the middle of the fixteenth Century ...
... thofe who might be un- able to read the Original , was the main Induce- ment to its Publication . The Treatise on the SUBLIME had slept for feveral Ages , covered up in the Duft of Li- braries , till the middle of the fixteenth Century ...
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... thofe of the Printer ) moft injuriously preferved . " I have fince accidentally met with two other English Verfions of this Treatife ; one by J. Hall , Efq ; London 1652 ; the other without a Name , but printed at Oxford in 1698 , and ...
... thofe of the Printer ) moft injuriously preferved . " I have fince accidentally met with two other English Verfions of this Treatife ; one by J. Hall , Efq ; London 1652 ; the other without a Name , but printed at Oxford in 1698 , and ...
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... thofe Inftances which I have brought from the facred Writers , as well as from fome of the fineft of our own Country , to illuftrate the Criti- cifms of Longinus . I am only fearful , left a- mong the multiplicity of fuch as might be ...
... thofe Inftances which I have brought from the facred Writers , as well as from fome of the fineft of our own Country , to illuftrate the Criti- cifms of Longinus . I am only fearful , left a- mong the multiplicity of fuch as might be ...
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... thofe Countries in which it was spent . We meet with nothing but con- tinual Scenes of Devaftation and Ruin . In one place , a beautiful Spot fmiling through the Bounty of Nature , yet over - run with Weeds and Thorns for want of ...
... thofe Countries in which it was spent . We meet with nothing but con- tinual Scenes of Devaftation and Ruin . In one place , a beautiful Spot fmiling through the Bounty of Nature , yet over - run with Weeds and Thorns for want of ...
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... thofe Reflections have been , which could not but arife in the Breaft of Longinus , that he was explaining and recommending the Doctrine of Plato in thofe calm Re- treats where he himself had written ; that he was teaching his Scholars ...
... thofe Reflections have been , which could not but arife in the Breaft of Longinus , that he was explaining and recommending the Doctrine of Plato in thofe calm Re- treats where he himself had written ; that he was teaching his Scholars ...
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