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... Quintilian , and nearly imitated the manner of this tragic writer , though in a differ- ent kind of work . He is a complete pattern of ora- torial excellence ; ità omnem vitæ imaginem expres- sit , tanta in eo inveniendi copia , et ...
... Quintilian , and nearly imitated the manner of this tragic writer , though in a differ- ent kind of work . He is a complete pattern of ora- torial excellence ; ità omnem vitæ imaginem expres- sit , tanta in eo inveniendi copia , et ...
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... Quintilian has here painted Menander with as lively and expressive strokes , as Menander had characterized the Athenians . Boileau , in his celebrated eighth satire , has not represented the misery and folly of man , so forcibly or ...
... Quintilian has here painted Menander with as lively and expressive strokes , as Menander had characterized the Athenians . Boileau , in his celebrated eighth satire , has not represented the misery and folly of man , so forcibly or ...
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... painters were eminently skilled , if we trust the testi- monies of Pliny , Quintilian , and Lucian ; and to credit them we are obliged , if we would form to ourselves any idea of these artists at all ; for there N ° 127 . 227 ADVENTURER .
... painters were eminently skilled , if we trust the testi- monies of Pliny , Quintilian , and Lucian ; and to credit them we are obliged , if we would form to ourselves any idea of these artists at all ; for there N ° 127 . 227 ADVENTURER .
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... Quintilian , who mention corporal defects and deformities as proper objects of raillery . If it be now asked to what can we ascribe this superiority of the moderns in all the species of ridi - ✓ cule ? I answer , to the improved state ...
... Quintilian , who mention corporal defects and deformities as proper objects of raillery . If it be now asked to what can we ascribe this superiority of the moderns in all the species of ridi - ✓ cule ? I answer , to the improved state ...
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acquaintance ADVENTURER affection Almerine ancients appearance Aristophanes bagnio beauty became Boileau burlesque Caliban Caprinus Carazan censure character Clodio considered Cordelia courage Crito danger daugh daughters Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN entreated equal Euripides evil excellence eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fortune frequently gentleman Goneril gratify guilt happiness hast heart Hilario honour hope Hudibras imagination impatient increased insensibility kind knew labour lady Lear less look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery morning nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetual person pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus present produced Quintilian reason received reflected SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah solicitous Soliman solitude sometimes soon Sophocles suffered superaddition Telephus tenderness thee Theocritus things thou thought tion told truth TUESDAY utmost VIRG virtue wish wretch writers