This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1737 Excerpt: ...thought the paflagf more Surprising; but I dare say he wouk not have thought it so worthy of hi Commendation. To mix these things in a Description is really as absurd, 39 to paint a RiW' God, not with his Urn, to signify what he is; but gushing all over into Streams, like some of the odd Figures in Cto//s Metamorphosis ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1737 Excerpt: ...thought the paflagf more Surprising; but I dare say he wouk not have thought it so worthy of hi Commendation. To mix these things in a Description is really as absurd, 39 to paint a RiW' God, not with his Urn, to signify what he is; but gushing all over into Streams, like some of the odd Figures in Cto//s Metamorphosis: and by the way, it may be a very good (b) Rule that is given, ra try mixt Metaphors at any time forming in one s Mind a Picture fr0'D what is said, and considering how tW (a) Cap.t4.Ed.OxM. 1718. (b) Setter, N- S9S-n Parts Parts of it would agree, were they delineated upon Canvas. There is another Difagreement in Epithets, when two Expressions, proper in themselves, are yet join'd together improperly. Alter a great Slaughter we may very well have a Notion of Heaps, er (as it is in the Poetical Language) Mountains of the Slain; 'tis natural on the fame Occaiion to imagine to ouiselves their Wounds, and the Blood ebbing out of them: these are very proper separately; but to join them under the Notion of a (a) Bleeding Mountain, does not look so reconcileable to the Mind. An Error yet more frequent is, when we give a Word that Epithet, which is proper to it on some Occasions, indifferently at all Times, and without any Occasion. This, in some measure, has been always allowable in Verse: however such a Liberty is not without its Bounds, nor should it be used intemperately. Purple (for instance) is an Epithet very frequent in the Ancient Poets for the Habit of Princes: yet it is not to be given to thac df all Great Men; nor of Princes equally, XX, i3rv--niS. I 4 whether whether (a) young or old; nor of the very fame Prince, under several Circumstances. Tho' a Remark of this kind maVj leem insignificant enough, the Neglect c it in Pr...
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