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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... ferve to the real recommendation of poets , or which indeed , the graveft or warmeft of their friends have ever pleaded in their behalf . This defence confifts [ from 118 to 139 ] in bringing into view their many civil , moral , and ...
... ferve to the real recommendation of poets , or which indeed , the graveft or warmeft of their friends have ever pleaded in their behalf . This defence confifts [ from 118 to 139 ] in bringing into view their many civil , moral , and ...
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... ferve about him in quality of flaves . 3 The ornaments of the DOORS of this delubrum , on which the fculptor used to lavish all the riches of his art , are next delineated . In foribus pugnam ex auro folidoque elephanto Gangaridum ...
... ferve about him in quality of flaves . 3 The ornaments of the DOORS of this delubrum , on which the fculptor used to lavish all the riches of his art , are next delineated . In foribus pugnam ex auro folidoque elephanto Gangaridum ...
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... ferve , besides , to inform or inftruct us , by the truths it conveys , and by the precepts or examples it inculcates , this fervice may rather be accepted , than re- quired by us if it pleafed ONLY , by its ingenious fictions , and ...
... ferve , besides , to inform or inftruct us , by the truths it conveys , and by the precepts or examples it inculcates , this fervice may rather be accepted , than re- quired by us if it pleafed ONLY , by its ingenious fictions , and ...
Strona 178
... ferve , nor do we fo fully enter into , the truth of reprefentation in any of them ; the fenfe of humour , as of the pathos , depending very much on the continued and undiverted operation of its object upon us . 3. The two dramas agree ...
... ferve , nor do we fo fully enter into , the truth of reprefentation in any of them ; the fenfe of humour , as of the pathos , depending very much on the continued and undiverted operation of its object upon us . 3. The two dramas agree ...
Strona 181
... ferve much better . The reafon is , real action does not ordina- rily afford variety of incidents enough to fhew the character fully : feigned altion may . 4 And this difference , we may obfervé , ex- plains the reafon why tragedies are ...
... ferve much better . The reafon is , real action does not ordina- rily afford variety of incidents enough to fhew the character fully : feigned altion may . 4 And this difference , we may obfervé , ex- plains the reafon why tragedies are ...
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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.