 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...  Critical works - Page 18by Richard Hurd - 1811Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...638 Receiv'd his laws ; and stood convinced 'twas fit, Who conquer'd Nature, should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey, 655 The truest notions in the easiest way. He, who supreme... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...650 Receiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit, Who conquer'd Nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense ; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey 655 The truest notions in the easiest way. He who, supreme... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...of the Poetics in which he had given precepts for comedy, did not likewise descend to posterity. 39. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense.* The vulgar notion, that Horace's Epistle to the Pisos contains a complete Art of Poetry, is totally... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...liherty, Keceiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit, Who conquer'd nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; 95 Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He who, supreme in... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...Rcceiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd; 'twas fi I, Whocoiif|uci'd N'attire should preside o'er »it Horace still charms with graceful negligence And without method talks us into sense • Will, like n friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. Hewho, supreme in... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...liberty, Receiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit Who conquer'd nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And, without method, talks us into sense j Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He who, supreme in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...liberty, Receiv'd liis laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit Who conquer'd nature should preside o'er wit. 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...liberty, Rpreiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit Who conquer' d nature should preside o'er wit. 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... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...draw : But when t'examine ev'ry part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. POPE. Horace. 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, He, who supreme in... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 458 pages
...frequent in the Roman satire, as likewise for the looser numbers which appeared so essential to the grace of it. It was in learned allusion to this comic...negligence, *' And, without method, TALKS us into sense." 2. It being now seen, what was the real form of the satire, nothing, it is plain, was wanting, but... | |
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