 | Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...fpecies of beauty. Accuracy and correclnefs ; artfully connected narration.; exact method and proportion of parts, we may look for in polifhed times. The gay...beautiful, will appear to more advantage in the midft of Imiling fcenery and pleafurablc themes. But amidft the rude fcenes of nature, amidft rocks and torrents... | |
 | 1765 - 520 pages
...fpecies of beauty. Accuracy and correftnefs -, artfully connected narration ; exact method and proportion of parts, we may look for in polifhed times. The gay...appear to more advantage in the midft •of fmiling Icenery and pkafurablc themes. But 8 atnidft amidft the rude fcenes of nature, amidft rocks and torrents... | |
 | Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...fpecies of beauty. .Accuracy and corre&nefs ; artfully connected narration ; exa£ method and proportion of parts, we may look for in polifhed times. The gay...battles, dwells the fublime. It is the thunder and the lightning of genius. It is the •offspring of nature, not of art. It is negligent of all the letter... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...exa£b method and proportion of parts, we may look for in polished times. The gay and the beauriful, will appear to more advantage in. the midft of fmiling fcenery and pleafurable themes. But amidft the rudefcenes of nature, amidft rocks, and torrents, and whirlwinds, and battles, dwells the fublime.... | |
 | Robert Henry - Great Britain - 1788 - 518 pages
...favourable to the fublime than to any other fpecies of poetical excellence. " Accuracy and correftnefs, artfully " connected narration, exact method and pro"...appear " to more advantage in the midft of fmiling ct fcenery and pleafurable themes. But amidfr. tc the rude fcenes of nature, amidft rocks, and <f torrents,... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 344 pages
...fpecies of beauty. Accuracy and correctnefs; artfully connected narration; exact method and proportion of parts, we may look for in polifhed times. The gay and the beautiful, will appear to more advantage inthe midft of fmiling fcenery and pleafurable Jhemes. But amidft the rude fcenes of nature, amidft... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 364 pages
...s)$6 A critical DISSERTATION correclnefs ; artfully connected narration; exact method and proportion of parts , we may look for in polifhed times. The...the beautiful , will appear to more advantage in the mirllt of fmiling fcenery and pleafnre themes. But amidft the rude fcenes of nature^ amidft rocks and... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1801 - 348 pages
...»S« A critical DISSERTATION correctnefs ; artfully connected narration; exact method and proportion of, parts , we may look for in polifhed times. The gay and the beautiful , w31 appear to more advantage in the miuii of fmiling fcenery and pleafure themes. But a mid It the... | |
 | Edward Jones - Bardes (Poètes) - 1802 - 142 pages
...art." '• Among the fam'd remains of ancient time, '*' Soul- moving poetry ihines moft fublime." " The gay and the beautiful -will appear to more advantage in the midft of fmiling fcenery, and pleafur« «• able themes." The Britons were always famous for three things ; namely, handfome Women,... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...correctness; artfully connected narration ; exact method aitd proportion of parts, we may look for in polished times. The gay and the beautiful, will appear to more advantage in the midst of smiling scenery and pleasurable themes. But amidst the rude scenes of nature, amidst rocks... | |
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