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... poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this slight essay then was to you ; and am secure of the kind reception you will now give to it ; improved , as I think it is , in some respects , and presented to you in this public way.- I ...
... poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this slight essay then was to you ; and am secure of the kind reception you will now give to it ; improved , as I think it is , in some respects , and presented to you in this public way.- I ...
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... poets , which every " line of it absolutely confutes ; but , simply to criti- " cize the ROMAN DRAMA . " For to this end ... poet's own reflexions , and scrutiniz- ing the peculiar state of the Roman stage ( the me- thods , which common ...
... poets , which every " line of it absolutely confutes ; but , simply to criti- " cize the ROMAN DRAMA . " For to this end ... poet's own reflexions , and scrutiniz- ing the peculiar state of the Roman stage ( the me- thods , which common ...
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... poet's purpose had been to write a criticism of the art of poetry at large , and not , as is here shewn , of the Roman drama in parti- cular . But there is something more to be observed , in the case of HEINSIUS . For , as will be made ...
... poet's purpose had been to write a criticism of the art of poetry at large , and not , as is here shewn , of the Roman drama in parti- cular . But there is something more to be observed , in the case of HEINSIUS . For , as will be made ...
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... poet's conduct of this , i . e . the didactic epistle . For , 1. The subject of each epistle is one : that is , one single point is prosecuted through the whole piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of ...
... poet's conduct of this , i . e . the didactic epistle . For , 1. The subject of each epistle is one : that is , one single point is prosecuted through the whole piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of ...
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... poet's design , and opens with that air of ease and negligence , essential to the epistolary form . II . The main body of the epistle [ from v . 89 to 295 ] is laid out in regulating the Roman stage ; but chiefly in giving rules for ...
... poet's design , and opens with that air of ease and negligence , essential to the epistolary form . II . The main body of the epistle [ from v . 89 to 295 ] is laid out in regulating the Roman stage ; but chiefly in giving rules for ...
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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.