 | Horace - Poetry - 1776 - 280 pages
...Addilbn conceived of it in the fame manner, when he faid, " This was " the only witty line in the Mneh ;" meaning fuch a line as Ovid would have written. We...dignity of the writer's work, and the gravity of his charafter. They took it, in fhort, for a mere modern flourifh, totally different from the pure unaffefted... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 474 pages
...such a line as Ovid would " have written. We see they esteemed it a wanton play " of fancy, unbecoming the dignity of the Writer's work, " and the gravity of his character. They took it, in " short, for a mere modern flourish, totally different from " the pure unaffected manner of genuine... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 492 pages
...double sense, in general, in the greater Poetry. They esteemed it a wanton play of fancy, misbecoming the dignity of the writer's work, and the gravity of his character. They took it, in short, for a mere modern flourish, totally different from the pure unaffected manner of genuin antiquity.... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 458 pages
...double sense, in general, in the greater Poetry. They esteemed it a wanton play of fancy, misbecoming the dignity of the writer's work, and the gravity of his character. They took it, in short, for a mere modern flourish, totally different from the pure unaffected manner of genuin antiquity.... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 458 pages
...double sense, in general, in the greater Poetry. They esteemed it a wanton play of fancy, misbecoming the dignity of the writer's work, and the gravity of his character. They took it, in short, for a mere modern flourish, totally different from the pure unaffected manner of genuin antiquity.... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 478 pages
...Ovid \vould. ' " have " have written. We see they esteemed it a wanton play " of fancy, unbecoming the dignity of the Writer's work, " and the gravity of his character. They took h, in " short; for a mere modern flourish, totally different from " the pure unaffected manner of genuine... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1837 - 744 pages
...such a line as Ovid would have written. We see they esteemed it a wanton play of fancy, unbecoming the dignity of the writer's work, and the gravity of his character. They took it, in short, for a more modern flourish, totally different from Uw pure unaffected manner of genuine antiquity.... | |
 | William Warburton - Bible - 1846 - 524 pages
...such a line as Ovid would have written. We see they esteemed it a wanton play of fancy, unbecoming the dignity of the Writer's work, and the gravity of his character. They took it, in short, for a mere modem flourish, totally different from the pure unaffected manner of genuine antiquity.... | |
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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,... 