Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Volume 2 |
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... because I find myself en- couraged to do fo by higher confi- derations , than even the Authority of your example . CRITICISM , confidered in its antient and nobleft office of doing justice to the merits of great writers , more espe ...
... because I find myself en- couraged to do fo by higher confi- derations , than even the Authority of your example . CRITICISM , confidered in its antient and nobleft office of doing justice to the merits of great writers , more espe ...
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... because criticism , though it be the laft fruit of literary experience , is more exposed to the cavils of ignorance and vanity , than , perhaps , any other fpecies of learned application : all men being forward to judge , and few men ...
... because criticism , though it be the laft fruit of literary experience , is more exposed to the cavils of ignorance and vanity , than , perhaps , any other fpecies of learned application : all men being forward to judge , and few men ...
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... because this barbarity of talte had contributed more than any thing elfe to deprave the poetry of the flage , and difcourage its beft mafters from study- ing its perfection , what follows [ from 189 to 207 ] is intended , in all the ...
... because this barbarity of talte had contributed more than any thing elfe to deprave the poetry of the flage , and difcourage its beft mafters from study- ing its perfection , what follows [ from 189 to 207 ] is intended , in all the ...
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... because antient fuperftition usually pre- ferred , for thefe purposes , the banks of rivers to other fituations , therefore the poet , in beautiful allufion to the fite of fome of the moft celebrated pagan temples , builds his on the ...
... because antient fuperftition usually pre- ferred , for thefe purposes , the banks of rivers to other fituations , therefore the poet , in beautiful allufion to the fite of fome of the moft celebrated pagan temples , builds his on the ...
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... because this pretence to dramatic art , and the ftrict imitation of the Greek poets , was grown , in his time , and long before it , into a degree of pedantry and affectation ; no other merit but this of docti , being of any ...
... because this pretence to dramatic art , and the ftrict imitation of the Greek poets , was grown , in his time , and long before it , into a degree of pedantry and affectation ; no other merit but this of docti , being of any ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 116 - ... to hold children, from play, and old men from the chimney corner*.
Page 32 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Page 16 - Parthis mendacior, et prius orto sole vigil calamum et chartas et scrinia posco.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.