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 xiii
... fhew you , that , of the two models , antiquity had furnish- ed to our use , we had learned , by an awkward imitation of it , to abuse the worst . But it did not content your zeal for the service of letters barely to remedy this abuse ...
... fhew you , that , of the two models , antiquity had furnish- ed to our use , we had learned , by an awkward imitation of it , to abuse the worst . But it did not content your zeal for the service of letters barely to remedy this abuse ...
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... fhew of learned admiration of the antients , whofe age and reputation had made them truly venerable , and whofe genuine merits , in the main , could not be difputed , a direct attack upon their fame , at fetting out , without any ...
... fhew of learned admiration of the antients , whofe age and reputation had made them truly venerable , and whofe genuine merits , in the main , could not be difputed , a direct attack upon their fame , at fetting out , without any ...
Strona 45
... fhew their ideas , as tending to fet the common reader at a gaze . The allegory then proceeds : Primus ego patriam mecum ( modo vita fuperfit ) Aonio rediens deducam vertice Mufas . The projected conqueft was no less than that of all ...
... fhew their ideas , as tending to fet the common reader at a gaze . The allegory then proceeds : Primus ego patriam mecum ( modo vita fuperfit ) Aonio rediens deducam vertice Mufas . The projected conqueft was no less than that of all ...
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... fhew the folly of concluding the fame of the old Roman writers , on their first rude at- tempts to copy the finished models of Greece , as of the old Greek writers themselves , who were furnished with the means of producing those models ...
... fhew the folly of concluding the fame of the old Roman writers , on their first rude at- tempts to copy the finished models of Greece , as of the old Greek writers themselves , who were furnished with the means of producing those models ...
Strona 65
... fhew the force of it , ftill more clearly . In Mr. Pope's fine imitation of this epiftle , are thefe lines- In all debates , where critics bear a part , Not one but nods and talks of Johnson's art- One fees , then , how Mr. Pope ...
... fhew the force of it , ftill more clearly . In Mr. Pope's fine imitation of this epiftle , are thefe lines- In all debates , where critics bear a part , Not one but nods and talks of Johnson's art- One fees , then , how Mr. Pope ...
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