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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... reasons of excellence in every different fpecies of compofition ; and a strong imagination , the parent of what we call true tafte , enabling the critic to feel the full force of his author's excellence himself , and to impress a lively ...
... reasons of excellence in every different fpecies of compofition ; and a strong imagination , the parent of what we call true tafte , enabling the critic to feel the full force of his author's excellence himself , and to impress a lively ...
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... reason and accuracy of method , which Ariftotle himself could bestow upon it . But now this might almoft feem as violent an extreme as the other . For though to understand be better than to admire , yet the generality of readers cannot ...
... reason and accuracy of method , which Ariftotle himself could bestow upon it . But now this might almoft feem as violent an extreme as the other . For though to understand be better than to admire , yet the generality of readers cannot ...
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... reasons of this delay , the princi- pal , as you obferve , might be the fall of the public freedom of Greece , which foon after followed . For then , instead of the free and manly efforts of genius , which alone could accomplish such a ...
... reasons of this delay , the princi- pal , as you obferve , might be the fall of the public freedom of Greece , which foon after followed . For then , instead of the free and manly efforts of genius , which alone could accomplish such a ...
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... reason then to conclude , it had any other original in the latter ? This is the poet's argument . But now , of thefe worthies themfelves , whom the juftice of grateful pofterity had fnatched out of the hands of detraction , there were ...
... reason then to conclude , it had any other original in the latter ? This is the poet's argument . But now , of thefe worthies themfelves , whom the juftice of grateful pofterity had fnatched out of the hands of detraction , there were ...
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... reason- able and well founded , as well as others , that he deemed lefs juft , and as fuch intended more imme- diately to expose . We fee then with what art the poet conducts him- felf in this attack on the antients , and how it ferved ...
... reason- able and well founded , as well as others , that he deemed lefs juft , and as fuch intended more imme- diately to expose . We fee then with what art the poet conducts him- felf in this attack on the antients , and how it ferved ...
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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.