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... spirit of other , without destroying that natural and necessary difference , which ought to subsist betwixt them all . To explane this , which is a point of great nicety , he considers [ from v . 89 to 99 ] the case of dra- matic poetry ...
... spirit of other , without destroying that natural and necessary difference , which ought to subsist betwixt them all . To explane this , which is a point of great nicety , he considers [ from v . 89 to 99 ] the case of dra- matic poetry ...
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... spirit . Both together fur- nish a thorough and complete comprehension of human life ; which manifesting itself in the just , and affecting , forms that exquisite degree of perfection in the character of the dramatic poet ; the want of ...
... spirit . Both together fur- nish a thorough and complete comprehension of human life ; which manifesting itself in the just , and affecting , forms that exquisite degree of perfection in the character of the dramatic poet ; the want of ...
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... of common and familiar use , but contrived to bring them into his style in such a manner as to give them the force , spirit , and energy of satiric expression . " 2. Again the context , as I observed , leads 76 NOTES ON THE.
... of common and familiar use , but contrived to bring them into his style in such a manner as to give them the force , spirit , and energy of satiric expression . " 2. Again the context , as I observed , leads 76 NOTES ON THE.
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... spirit hies To his confine- ib . Can't such things be And overcome us , like a Summer's cloud , Without our special wonder ? — Macb . A. III . S. 56 10. By transposition of words - unauthoriz'd use of terms ART OF POETRY . 93.
... spirit hies To his confine- ib . Can't such things be And overcome us , like a Summer's cloud , Without our special wonder ? — Macb . A. III . S. 56 10. By transposition of words - unauthoriz'd use of terms ART OF POETRY . 93.
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... spirit of the ODE . Descriptas servare vices operumque colores , Cur ego , si nequeo ignoroque , POETA salutor ? Hence is seen the truth of that remark , which there hath been more than once occasion to make , " That , " however general ...
... spirit of the ODE . Descriptas servare vices operumque colores , Cur ego , si nequeo ignoroque , POETA salutor ? Hence is seen the truth of that remark , which there hath been more than once occasion to make , " That , " however general ...
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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.