The whole critical works of monsieur Rapin, newly tr. by several hands [really by B. Kennett].1716 |
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... seems chiefly to confift in a natu ral Ability ; yet in cafe this be wanting , the Defect may be fupplied by Application , and fuch an Application as depends rather upon Exercife than upon Art . The Eloquence of Demofthenes was rendred ...
... seems chiefly to confift in a natu ral Ability ; yet in cafe this be wanting , the Defect may be fupplied by Application , and fuch an Application as depends rather upon Exercife than upon Art . The Eloquence of Demofthenes was rendred ...
Strona 129
... Seem , be- ing of an active Signification ; and Cacumina may as well be taken for the tops of Trees , as the tops of Mountains , which doubtful Mean- ing does not fo well content the Reader , as the Certainty . In the third Verfe ...
... Seem , be- ing of an active Signification ; and Cacumina may as well be taken for the tops of Trees , as the tops of Mountains , which doubtful Mean- ing does not fo well content the Reader , as the Certainty . In the third Verfe ...
Strona 201
... seems fome Judgment and Conduct in his Defign , but no- thing of Greatnefs and Noblenefs in his Ex- preffion ; and if one may rely on the younger Pliny's Judgment , there is more Art than Wit in his Poem ; it is rather the History of ...
... seems fome Judgment and Conduct in his Defign , but no- thing of Greatnefs and Noblenefs in his Ex- preffion ; and if one may rely on the younger Pliny's Judgment , there is more Art than Wit in his Poem ; it is rather the History of ...
Strona 227
... seems , has it Force enough to exprefs Things fo naturally to the Life , and to fuftain that great Simplicity of the bucolique Verfe , fo nobly as the Greek and Latin Tongue ; for the Greek and Latin have a certain Character of Majefty ...
... seems , has it Force enough to exprefs Things fo naturally to the Life , and to fuftain that great Simplicity of the bucolique Verfe , fo nobly as the Greek and Latin Tongue ; for the Greek and Latin have a certain Character of Majefty ...
Strona 231
... seems not yet well established amongst them . XXX . The Ode ought to have as much Nobleness , Elevation , and Transport , as the Eclogue has of Simplicity and Modefty . ' Tis not only the Wit that heightens it , but likewife the Mat ...
... seems not yet well established amongst them . XXX . The Ode ought to have as much Nobleness , Elevation , and Transport , as the Eclogue has of Simplicity and Modefty . ' Tis not only the Wit that heightens it , but likewife the Mat ...
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Strona 166 - ... at by the boldness of a metaphor is dangerous, insomuch that it comes nigh to rashness, Aristotle must be consulted on this matter to employ them with discretion, as Virgil has done, who, treating of bees in the fourth book of his Georgics, that he might heighten the meanness of his subject, speaks not of them but in metaphorical terms — of a court, of legions, of armies, of combats, pitched fields, kings, captains, soldiers — and by this admirable art forms a noble image of the lowest subject,...
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