The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1811 |
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... called the DIDACTIC ; the other , the ELEGIAC epistle . By the FIRST I mean all those epistles , whose end is to instruct ; whether the subject be morals , politics , criticism , or , in general , human life by the LATTER , all those ...
... called the DIDACTIC ; the other , the ELEGIAC epistle . By the FIRST I mean all those epistles , whose end is to instruct ; whether the subject be morals , politics , criticism , or , in general , human life by the LATTER , all those ...
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... called the Elegy : a poem of very antient Greek extraction : naturally arising from the plain- tive , querulous humour of mankind ; which , under the pressure of any grief , is impatient to break forth into wailings and tender ...
... called the Elegy : a poem of very antient Greek extraction : naturally arising from the plain- tive , querulous humour of mankind ; which , under the pressure of any grief , is impatient to break forth into wailings and tender ...
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... called faults , were really not so : that some parts of a poem ought to be less shining , or less finished , than others ; according to the light , they were placed in , or the distance , from which they were viewed ; and that , serving ...
... called faults , were really not so : that some parts of a poem ought to be less shining , or less finished , than others ; according to the light , they were placed in , or the distance , from which they were viewed ; and that , serving ...
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... called , as compound epithets are ; and not of the grace of novelty which single words seem to acquire from the art of disposing of them . " By which we understand , that the learned critic did not perceive the scope of his author ...
... called , as compound epithets are ; and not of the grace of novelty which single words seem to acquire from the art of disposing of them . " By which we understand , that the learned critic did not perceive the scope of his author ...
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... called beau- tiful : not because the same perceptions are excited by all ' ( the pleasures being apparently different ) but because they are all excited in the same manner . And this is confirmed by a distinction which every one ...
... called beau- tiful : not because the same perceptions are excited by all ' ( the pleasures being apparently different ) but because they are all excited in the same manner . And this is confirmed by a distinction which every one ...
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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.