The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 - Theology, Doctrinal |
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... nature , from the hereditary honour of your family , and from an education in which you have been trained to the study of the best things . I am , DEAR SIR , EMAN . COLL . CAMB . June 21 , 1757. ? Your most faithful and most obedient ...
... nature , from the hereditary honour of your family , and from an education in which you have been trained to the study of the best things . I am , DEAR SIR , EMAN . COLL . CAMB . June 21 , 1757. ? Your most faithful and most obedient ...
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... will be worth while to reflect how this happened . Satire , in its origin , I mean in the rude fescennine farce , from which the idea of this poem was taken + was a mere extemporaneous jumble of mirth and ill- nature INTRODUCTION . 17.
... will be worth while to reflect how this happened . Satire , in its origin , I mean in the rude fescennine farce , from which the idea of this poem was taken + was a mere extemporaneous jumble of mirth and ill- nature INTRODUCTION . 17.
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Richard Hurd. was a mere extemporaneous jumble of mirth and ill- nature . ENNIUS , who had the honour of introduc- ing it under its new name , without doubt , civilized both , yet left it without form or method ; it being only , in his ...
Richard Hurd. was a mere extemporaneous jumble of mirth and ill- nature . ENNIUS , who had the honour of introduc- ing it under its new name , without doubt , civilized both , yet left it without form or method ; it being only , in his ...
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... nature demanding some chain of con- nexion , and a respect to its origin requiring that con- nexion to be slight and somewhat concealed . But its aim , as well as origin , exacted this careless me- thod . For being , as Diomedes ...
... nature demanding some chain of con- nexion , and a respect to its origin requiring that con- nexion to be slight and somewhat concealed . But its aim , as well as origin , exacted this careless me- thod . For being , as Diomedes ...
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... natural , successive train of thinking unavoidably draws along with it . And this , by the way , accounts for the dialogue ... nature and good sense , being in nothing different from that of the other , For here 1. an unity of subject or ...
... natural , successive train of thinking unavoidably draws along with it . And this , by the way , accounts for the dialogue ... nature and good sense , being in nothing different from that of the other , For here 1. an unity of subject or ...
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Page 29 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Page 41 - Troianum 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 78 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Page 59 - ... qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, abstinuit venere et vino ; qui Pythia cantat tibicen, didicit prius extimuitque magistrum. nunc satis est dixisse ' ego mira poemata pango ; occupet extremum scabies ; mihi turpe relinqui est, et quod non didici sane nescire fateri.
Page 37 - Descriptas servare vices operumque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poe'ta salutor ? Cur nescire pudens prave quam discere malo? Versibus exponi tragieis res comica noa volt ; Indignatur item privatis ac prope socco 90 Dignis carminibus narrari cena Thyestae.
Page 31 - ... adsuitur 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: quid hoc, si fractis enatat exspes 20 navibus, aere dato qui pingitur?
Page 40 - Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet. Difficile est proprie communia dicere ; tuque Rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus, Quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus.
Page 57 - Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva ; 385 Id tibi judicium est, ea mens ; si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat judicis aures Et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum : Membranis intus positis delere licebit, Quod non edideris ; nescit vox missa reverti.
Page 61 - Transverso calamo signum ; ambitiosa recidet Ornamenta ; parum claris lucem dare coget ; Arguet ambigue dictum ; mutanda notabit ; Fiet Aristarchus ; non dicet, Cur ego amicum 450 Offendam in nugis ? Hae nugae seria ducent In mala derisum semel, exceptumque sinistre.
Page 39 - Jura neget sibi nata, nihil non arroget armis ; Sit Medea ferox invictaque, flebilis Ino, Perfidus Ixion, lo vaga, tristis Orestes.