Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense, Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, Yet judg'd... The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 73von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 Seiten
...< Keceiv'd his laws; and stood convinc'd 'twas fit, \Vho conquer'd Nature, should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...Yet judg'd with coolness, tho' he sung with fire; U is precepts teacli but what his works inspire. i Our critics take a contrary extreme, They judge... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 Seiten
...liberty, Receiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas Who conquer'd nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...censure as he boldly writ, Yet judg'd with coolness, though he sung with fire} His precepts teach but what his works inspire. Our critics take a contrary... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 Seiten
...63 Receiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit, Who conquer'd Nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...into sense ; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey 6. The truest notions in the easiest way. He who, supreme in judgment as in wit, Might boldly censure... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 426 Seiten
...part of the Poetics in he had given precepts for comedy, did not : e wise descend to posterity. 39. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense.* The vulgar notion, that Horace's Epistle to the Pisos contains a complete Art of Poetry, is togroundless... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 Seiten
...Poe¿ics -in which he had given precepts for comedy, did not likewise descend ‘to posterity. - - -. 39. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense.* The vulgar notion, that Horace's Epistle to the Pisos contains, a complete Art of Poetry, is totally... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 Seiten
...laws, and stood 4* who conquer'd Nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with grateful negligence, and without method talks us into sense,...will, like a friend, familiarly convey the truest notion is the easiest way. He who, supreme in judgment as in wit, might boldly censure as he boldly... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 Seiten
...convinc'd 't was fit, 4* who conquer'd Nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with grateful negligence, and without method talks us into sense, will, like a friend, familiarly convey 655 the truest notion is the easiest way. He who, supreme in judgment as in wit, might boldly censure... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 492 Seiten
...comic genius of the satire, that Mr. Pope hath justly characterized it in the following manner : " Horace still charms with graceful negligence, " And, without method, TALKS us into sense." 2. It being now seen, what was the real form of the satire, nothing, it is plain, was wanting, but... | |
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 450 Seiten
...comic genius of the satire, that Mr. Pope hath justly characterized it in the following manner : " Horace still charms with graceful negligence, " And, without method, TALKS us into sense." 2. It being now seen, what was the real form of the satire, nothing, it is plain, was wanting, but... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 Seiten
...liberty, Receiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit, Who conquer'd Nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey 6.' The truest notions in the easiest way. He who, supreme in judgment as in wit, Might boldly censure... | |
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