...without affectation or distortion, and as it should seem without even an effort of art : In the Labcoon we have a complicated plot ; we unravel a maze of...so that I cannot verify what I have advanced by any itronger instance than his. I should think there does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in...

...which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...

...nature iu the ambition of surpassing her. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Ad. dison's definition, which I before observed applies only to...there does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths ia imitation as Virgil; for to pass over his pastoral and bucolic poems, which are evidently drawn...

...nature in the ambition of surpassing her. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Ad. dison's definition, which I before observed applies only to...any stronger instance than his. I should think there docs not i_xist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his pastoral...

...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the Imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...

...begin to compound, refine, and even to distort. I will refer to the Venus de Medicis and the Laocob'n for an illustration of this. I do not concern myself...by any stronger instance than his. I should think thorp does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his...

...nature, he will produce beauty; if to what is lofty, bold, and tremendous, he will strike out sublimity. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Addison's...exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation Agreeably to this, we may observe in all literary and enlightened nations, their earliest authors and...

...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...

...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...

...which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike. If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated...