... wants that exaltation above common life, which in tragick or heroick writings often reconciles us to bold flights and daring figures. Pastoral being the 'representation of an action or passion, by its effects upon a country life', has nothing peculiar... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 283edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
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...Pastoral, being the representation of an action or passion by its effects upon a country life [Virgil], has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it eeases to be pastoral. This is its true characteristic, and this it cannot lose by any dignity of sentiment,... | |
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