Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Tom 2A. Millar, 1766 |
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Strona viii
... common eye by the heightenings of eloquence . This , I obferved , was the easier talk of the two ; and yet it was very long before it was fuccessfully attempted . Amongst other reasons of this delay , the princi- pal , as you obferve ...
... common eye by the heightenings of eloquence . This , I obferved , was the easier talk of the two ; and yet it was very long before it was fuccessfully attempted . Amongst other reasons of this delay , the princi- pal , as you obferve ...
Strona ix
... common fenfe , and adapted to the peculiar exigencies of their own taste and learning : and not by any [ b ] Pope's Works , vol . v . p . 244. 8vo . means , means , the regular productions of art , profeffedly bending DEDICATION . ix.
... common fenfe , and adapted to the peculiar exigencies of their own taste and learning : and not by any [ b ] Pope's Works , vol . v . p . 244. 8vo . means , means , the regular productions of art , profeffedly bending DEDICATION . ix.
Strona 8
... common sense , under the cover of general criticism , would even dispose bigottry itself to afford the poet a candid hearing . His accufation then of the public tafte comes in , here , very pertinently ; and is delivered , with addrefs ...
... common sense , under the cover of general criticism , would even dispose bigottry itself to afford the poet a candid hearing . His accufation then of the public tafte comes in , here , very pertinently ; and is delivered , with addrefs ...
Strona 14
... common eye may look like a digreffion [ from 93 to 108 ] in which is delineated the very different genius and practice of the two nations . For the Greeks [ to y 102 ] had applied themselves , in the in- tervals of their leifure from ...
... common eye may look like a digreffion [ from 93 to 108 ] in which is delineated the very different genius and practice of the two nations . For the Greeks [ to y 102 ] had applied themselves , in the in- tervals of their leifure from ...
Strona 22
... common life , they fuppofed an ordinary degree of care might fuf- fice , to do it justice . No wonder then , they over- looked or never came up to that nice adjustment of the manners , that truth and decorum of character , wherein the ...
... common life , they fuppofed an ordinary degree of care might fuf- fice , to do it justice . No wonder then , they over- looked or never came up to that nice adjustment of the manners , that truth and decorum of character , wherein the ...
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Strona 135 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Strona 142 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination.
Strona 116 - ... to hold children, from play, and old men from the chimney corner*.
Strona 32 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Strona 16 - Parthis mendacior, et prius orto sole vigil calamum et chartas et scrinia posco.
Strona 74 - This way of joining two such different ideas as chariot and counsel to the same verb is mightily used by Ovid, but is a very low kind of wit, and has always in it a mixture of pun, because the verb must be taken in a different sense when it is joined with one of the things, from what it has in conjunction with the other.
Strona 188 - ... portraits of this vicious taste are the admiration of common starers, who, if they find a picture of a miser for instance (as there is no commoner subject of moral portraits) in a collection, where every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into the expression of this idea, never fail to profess their wonder and approbation of it. — On this idea of excellence, Le Brun's book of the PASSIONS...
Strona 159 - But Italy, reviving from the trance Of Vandal, Goth, and Monkish ignorance, With pauses, cadence, and well-vowell'd words, And all the graces a good ear affords, Made rhyme an art, and Dante's polish'd page Restored a silver, not a golden age.
Strona 81 - They took it, in short, for a mere modern flourish, totally different from the pure unaffected manner of genuin antiquity. And thus far they unquestionably judged right. Their defect was in not seeing that the use of it, as here employed by the Poet, was an exception to the general rule. But to have seen this was not...
Strona 143 - When the received system of manners or religion in any country, happens to be so constituted as to suit itself in some degree to this extravagant turn of the human mind, we may expect that poetry will seize it with avidity, will dilate upon it with pleasure, and take a pride to erect its specious wonders on so proper and convenient a ground.