...At laft, into their inmoft chambers creep, And filent lie difiblv'd in balmy fleep. ing ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may be yery well accounted for ; laughter implies cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts...

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...ftyle without being ridiculous ; but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dig*' nity, as we fee in the Georgics ; but *' throw the former into ridicule, as in. the " Lutrin. 1 think this may very well he ac*' counted for: laughter implies cenfure; *' inanimate and irrational...

...very reafon, to have conf:dered it with a view to the Iliad. How dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin....this may very well be accounted for: laughter implies cenlure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts 'of cenfure; therefore they may be elevated...

...latter into dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw th« former into ridicule, as in the Lutrtn. I think this may very well be accounted for: laughter...cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts of cenfure ; therefore they may be elevated as much as you pleafe, and no ridicule follows...

...obfervation, That the low aftions of life cannot beputinto a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous ; but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may very well be accounted...

...things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think thif may very well be accounted for : laughter implies cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are...

...observation, that the low actions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...inanimate and irrational beings are not objects of ceufurc ; therefore they may be eleyated as much as you pleafe, and no ridicule follow : but when rational...

...obfervation, that the low actions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...the Georgics : but throw the former into ridicule, ss in the JUurin. I think this may very well be accounted for : laughter implies c'enfure ; inanimate...

...ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raifc the latter into dignity > as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin....very well be accounted for : laughter implies cenfure j inanimate and irrational beings arc not objects of cenfure; therefore thefe may btf elevated as much...