An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. Including Many of His Original Letters. [With a Portrait.], المجلد 1Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 من الصفحات |
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... Minstrel , " cor- responds exactly with what must have presented itself to his poetical imagination , on those occa- sions , at the approach of the rising sun , as he would view the grandeur of that scene from the hill in the ...
... Minstrel , " cor- responds exactly with what must have presented itself to his poetical imagination , on those occa- sions , at the approach of the rising sun , as he would view the grandeur of that scene from the hill in the ...
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... Minstrel " describes a night - scene unquestionably drawn from nature , in which he probably had in view Homer's sub- lime description of the moon , in the eighth book of the Iliad , so admirably translated by Pope , that an eminent ...
... Minstrel " describes a night - scene unquestionably drawn from nature , in which he probably had in view Homer's sub- lime description of the moon , in the eighth book of the Iliad , so admirably translated by Pope , that an eminent ...
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... ) are fallacious , and consequently , pernicious , insignificant , and vain . " In the following letter he gives a hint of his design of writing the " Minstrel . " LETTER XIII . DR BEATTIE TO DR BLACKLOCK . Aberdeen LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
... ) are fallacious , and consequently , pernicious , insignificant , and vain . " In the following letter he gives a hint of his design of writing the " Minstrel . " LETTER XIII . DR BEATTIE TO DR BLACKLOCK . Aberdeen LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
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... Minstrel . " The subject was sug- gested by a dissertation on the old minstrels , which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley in three volumes . I pro- pose to give an account of the birth , education , and ...
... Minstrel . " The subject was sug- gested by a dissertation on the old minstrels , which is prefixed to a collection of ballads lately published by Dodsley in three volumes . I pro- pose to give an account of the birth , education , and ...
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... minstrel . This is all that I have as yet concerted of the plan . I have writ- ten 150 lines , but my hero is not yet born , though now in a fair way of being so , for his parents are described and married . I know not whether I shall ...
... minstrel . This is all that I have as yet concerted of the plan . I have writ- ten 150 lines , but my hero is not yet born , though now in a fair way of being so , for his parents are described and married . I know not whether I shall ...
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