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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... dramatic muse , in par- ticular , had her birth , and derived her very character , from it . This circumftance then leads him with advantage , to give an historical deduction of the rife and progrefs of the Latin poefy , from its first ...
... dramatic muse , in par- ticular , had her birth , and derived her very character , from it . This circumftance then leads him with advantage , to give an historical deduction of the rife and progrefs of the Latin poefy , from its first ...
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... DRAMAS . The study of the Greek tra- and to good purpose , in difpofed the Latin wri 1. [ from 160 to 168 ] gedians had very naturally , the infancy of their tafte , ters to tranflation . Here they stuck long ; for their tragedy , even ...
... DRAMAS . The study of the Greek tra- and to good purpose , in difpofed the Latin wri 1. [ from 160 to 168 ] gedians had very naturally , the infancy of their tafte , ters to tranflation . Here they stuck long ; for their tragedy , even ...
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... drama than the tragic : whereas to hit its genuine character with exactness was , in truth , a point of much more difficulty . As the fubject of comedy was taken from common life , they fuppofed an ordinary degree of care might fuf ...
... drama than the tragic : whereas to hit its genuine character with exactness was , in truth , a point of much more difficulty . As the fubject of comedy was taken from common life , they fuppofed an ordinary degree of care might fuf ...
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... drama . Nay , the poet's cafe was ftill more defperate . For it was not the untutored rabble , as in other countries , that gave a countenance to thefe illiberal fports : even rank and quality , at Rome , debased itself in fhewing the ...
... drama . Nay , the poet's cafe was ftill more defperate . For it was not the untutored rabble , as in other countries , that gave a countenance to thefe illiberal fports : even rank and quality , at Rome , debased itself in fhewing the ...
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... dramatic writers ; having alledged every thing in their favour , that could be urged , plausibly , from the ftate of the Roman ftage : the genius of the peo- ple : and the feveral prevailing practices of ill tafte , which had brought ...
... dramatic writers ; having alledged every thing in their favour , that could be urged , plausibly , from the ftate of the Roman ftage : the genius of the peo- ple : and the feveral prevailing practices of ill tafte , which had brought ...
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abfurdity action addrefs admiration adparent affections againſt alfo almoſt antient atque Auguftus becauſe befides beft beſt cafe cenfure character circumftance comedy comic COMMENTARY compofition confideration confifts critic criticiſm defign dicere difpofition diftinct drama effential epiftle eſpecially expreffion exprefs faid fame farce fatire fcene feems fenfe fentiment ferious ferve fervice feveral fhew fhewn fhould fimple firft firſt folemn fome fpecies fpirit ftage ftill fubject fublime fuch fuppofe fure genius Greek hath himſelf Horace humour idea inftance inftruct itſelf juft juſt learned leaſt lefs Lucilius manners merit mind modern moft moſt muft muſt nature numbers obferved occafion Pacuvius paffion pafs perfons Plautus pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poet's poetry POLYGNOTUS praiſe prefent profe purpoſe quae quod racter reader reafon reprefentation reprefented ridicule Roman ſcene ſenſe ſpeaking ſuch tafte taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tragedy underſtand uſe verfe Virgil virtue whofe words writers
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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.