The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1811 |
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... better , that it even heightens the absurdity ; it being surely more reasonable to adapt different measures to different subjects , than to treat a number of inconnected and quite different subjects in the same measure . When therefore ...
... better , that it even heightens the absurdity ; it being surely more reasonable to adapt different measures to different subjects , than to treat a number of inconnected and quite different subjects in the same measure . When therefore ...
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... better agree to the impassioned elegy , than to the sedate didactic epistle . To set this three - fold character , in the fullest light , before the view of the reader , I have attempt- ed to explain the Epistle to the Pisos , in the ...
... better agree to the impassioned elegy , than to the sedate didactic epistle . To set this three - fold character , in the fullest light , before the view of the reader , I have attempt- ed to explain the Epistle to the Pisos , in the ...
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... better and less offensive way will be , not to coin a word entirely new ( for this is ever a task of some envy ) but , by means of an ingenious and happy position of a well - known word , in respect of some others , to give it a new air ...
... better and less offensive way will be , not to coin a word entirely new ( for this is ever a task of some envy ) but , by means of an ingenious and happy position of a well - known word , in respect of some others , to give it a new air ...
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... better sort , he lays down [ from v . 225 to 240 ] the exactest description or idea of this sort of poem ; by means of which he instructs us in the due temperature Migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas : Aut , dum 46 Q. HORATII FLACCI.
... better sort , he lays down [ from v . 225 to 240 ] the exactest description or idea of this sort of poem ; by means of which he instructs us in the due temperature Migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas : Aut , dum 46 Q. HORATII FLACCI.
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... better English . But to return to other Instances of the Poet's arti- fice in the management of known words . An appa- rent Novelty is sometimes effected 7. By turning Participles into Adverbs- And on the sudden dropt →→ -tremblingly ...
... better English . But to return to other Instances of the Poet's arti- fice in the management of known words . An appa- rent Novelty is sometimes effected 7. By turning Participles into Adverbs- And on the sudden dropt →→ -tremblingly ...
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Page 56 - Natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte Quaesitum est : ego nee Studium sine divite vena Nee rude quid possit video ingenium ; alterius sic 410 Altera poscit opem res et conjurat amice.
Page 76 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Page 31 - Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter 15 assuitur pannus, cum lucus et ara Dianae et properantis aquae per amoenos ambitus agros, aut flumen Rhenum aut pluvius describitur arcus. sed nunc non erat his locus. et fortasse cupressum scis simulare.
Page 33 - Sumite materiam vestris , qui scribitis , aequam Viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, Quid valeant humeri. Cui lecta potenter erit res , «> Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo.
Page 51 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Page 34 - Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte necesse est Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis 50 Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si Qraeco fonte cadent, parce detorta.
Page 41 - Trojanum orditur ab ovo ; Semper ad eventum festinat, et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et, quae Desperat tractata nitescere posse, relinquit, 150 Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet, Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum.
Page 35 - Ut silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos, Prima cadunt ; ita verborum vetus interit aetas, Et juvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
Page 295 - Dicitur Afrani toga convenisse Menandro ; Plautus ad exemplar Siculi properare Epicharmi ; Vincere Caecilius gravitate, Terentius arte. Hos ediscit, et hos arto stipata theatro Spectat Roma potens ; habet hos numeratque poetas Ad nostrum tempus, Livi scriptoris ab aevo.
Page 46 - Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum, 220 Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit eo, quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator functusque sacris et potus et exlex.