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... authority the great- est masters in taste and composition must finally submit . But the more unquestioned the credit of this poem is , the more it will concern the public , that it be justly and accurately understood . The writer of ...
... authority the great- est masters in taste and composition must finally submit . But the more unquestioned the credit of this poem is , the more it will concern the public , that it be justly and accurately understood . The writer of ...
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... authorities , which were not wanted , and in producing , or , more pro- perly , by their studied refinements in creating , conformities , which were never designed . Whence it hath come to pass , that , instead of investigating the ...
... authorities , which were not wanted , and in producing , or , more pro- perly , by their studied refinements in creating , conformities , which were never designed . Whence it hath come to pass , that , instead of investigating the ...
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... authority of a great author , who , in his edition of our English Horace , the best that ever was given of any classic , hath now retrieved and established the full credit of it . What was the amusement of his pen , becomes indeed , the ...
... authority of a great author , who , in his edition of our English Horace , the best that ever was given of any classic , hath now retrieved and established the full credit of it . What was the amusement of his pen , becomes indeed , the ...
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... authority of the poet himself against the opinion of the French critic . But we have also the authority of his great imitator , or rather interpreter , Persius ; who speaking of the language of his satires says , in allusion to this pas ...
... authority of the poet himself against the opinion of the French critic . But we have also the authority of his great imitator , or rather interpreter , Persius ; who speaking of the language of his satires says , in allusion to this pas ...
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... authority for saying , no one ever despised , but for a reason , not consistent with his credit to avow : rudem enim very esse omnino in nostris poëtis aut inertissimæ seg- nitiæ est aut fastidii delicatissimi . [ Cic . de fin . 1. i ...
... authority for saying , no one ever despised , but for a reason , not consistent with his credit to avow : rudem enim very esse omnino in nostris poëtis aut inertissimæ seg- nitiæ est aut fastidii delicatissimi . [ Cic . de fin . 1. i ...
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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 29 - 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 42 - Incident, nee quarta loqui persona laboret. .Actoris partes chorus officiumque virile Defendat," neu quid medios intercinat actus, Q,uod non proposito conducat et haereat apte...
Page 39 - 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 37 - Si quid inexpertum scenae committis et audes Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet.
Page 38 - Priami cantabo et nobile bellum. ' quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu ? parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. quanto rectius hic qui nil molitur inepte : 140 ' die mihi, Musa, virum, captae post tempora Troiae qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes.
Page 18 - Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, Yet judg'd with coolness, tho' he sung with fire; His precepts teach but what his works inspire.
Page 293 - 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 302 - Cum sociis operum, pueris et conjuge fida, Tellurem porco, Silvanum lacte piabant, Floribus et vino Genium memorem brevis aevi. Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem 145 Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit...
Page 56 - Tyrtaeusque mares animos in Martia bella versibus exacuit : dictae per carmina sortes, et vitae monstrata via est, et gratia regum Pieriis...