Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Band 3A. Millar, 1766 |
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... language of Criticifm , called INVENTION . Again ; of the endless variety of these original forms , which the poet's eye is in- ceffantly traverfing , thofe , which take his attention moft , his active mimetic faculty prompts him to ...
... language of Criticifm , called INVENTION . Again ; of the endless variety of these original forms , which the poet's eye is in- ceffantly traverfing , thofe , which take his attention moft , his active mimetic faculty prompts him to ...
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... language of the poet , but fimply the form under which he chufes to prefent his imagery to the fancy . The read- er will excuse my adding a word on fo cu- rious a fubject , which he will readily appre- hend from the following instance ...
... language of the poet , but fimply the form under which he chufes to prefent his imagery to the fancy . The read- er will excuse my adding a word on fo cu- rious a fubject , which he will readily appre- hend from the following instance ...
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... language . 2. This work of comparison is not gone about by the mind caufelessly and capriciously . There are cer tain obvious and ftriking refemblances in nature , which the poet is carried neceffa rily to obferve , and which offer ...
... language . 2. This work of comparison is not gone about by the mind caufelessly and capriciously . There are cer tain obvious and ftriking refemblances in nature , which the poet is carried neceffa rily to obferve , and which offer ...
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... language . A polite and elegant humour delights in the grace of ease and perfpicuity . A fevere and melancholic fpirit infpires a forcible but involved ex- preffion . There are many other nicer dif- ferences and peculiarities of manner ...
... language . A polite and elegant humour delights in the grace of ease and perfpicuity . A fevere and melancholic fpirit infpires a forcible but involved ex- preffion . There are many other nicer dif- ferences and peculiarities of manner ...
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... Languages , fays one , always take their character from the genius of a peo ple . So that two the most distant ftates , thinking and acting with the fame gene , rous love of mankind , must needs have " very near the fame combinations of ...
... Languages , fays one , always take their character from the genius of a peo ple . So that two the most distant ftates , thinking and acting with the fame gene , rous love of mankind , must needs have " very near the fame combinations of ...
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Seite 178 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Seite 193 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Seite 160 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Seite 164 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Seite 169 - Shakespeare, forget that the Pagan Imagery was familiar to all the Poets of his time ; and that abundance of this sort of learning was to be picked up from almost every English book that he could take into his hands.
Seite 229 - You that, too wife for pride, too good for pow'r, Enjoy the glory to be great no more, And, carrying with you all the world can boaft, To all the world...
Seite 9 - ... been joined, but were afterwards separated from each other by some ' God, for the sake of opening in the midst that large plain which stretches in ' length to about five miles, and in breadth a hundred paces or in some parts
Seite 203 - Nature deign'd to lend, As that the walls (worn thin) permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find.
Seite 178 - All feafons and thir change, all pleafe alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rifing fweet, With charm of earlieft Birds; pleafant the...
Seite 165 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state.