The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 - Theology, Doctrinal |
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... present our dutiful respects to your Majesty , and to express the joy we feel on your Majesty's arrival at this place . cause to " Your presence , Sir , gladdens the hearts of your faithful subjects , wherever you go . But We , the ...
... present our dutiful respects to your Majesty , and to express the joy we feel on your Majesty's arrival at this place . cause to " Your presence , Sir , gladdens the hearts of your faithful subjects , wherever you go . But We , the ...
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... present of two fine full - length pictures of his Majesty and the Queen , copied from those at the Queen's House , St. James's Park , painted by the late Mr. Gainsborough . A. D. These pictures are put up in the great.
... present of two fine full - length pictures of his Majesty and the Queen , copied from those at the Queen's House , St. James's Park , painted by the late Mr. Gainsborough . A. D. These pictures are put up in the great.
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... present design to pursue this subject . More exact ideas of the form and constitution of this epistle , must be sought in that best example of it , the natural Ro- man poet . It may only be observed of the different qualities ...
... present design to pursue this subject . More exact ideas of the form and constitution of this epistle , must be sought in that best example of it , the natural Ro- man poet . It may only be observed of the different qualities ...
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... present verse , who paints a dolphin in a wood , or a boar in the sea . 2. Another instance , in which we are misled by an ambition of attaining to what is right , is , when , through an excessive fear of committing faults , we ...
... present verse , who paints a dolphin in a wood , or a boar in the sea . 2. Another instance , in which we are misled by an ambition of attaining to what is right , is , when , through an excessive fear of committing faults , we ...
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... present alter- ation of shakes . For there was no manner of vio- lence in the father's coming in upon the lovers . All the effect was , that his presence restrained them from that interchange of tender words , which was going to take ...
... present alter- ation of shakes . For there was no manner of vio- lence in the father's coming in upon the lovers . All the effect was , that his presence restrained them from that interchange of tender words , which was going to take ...
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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.