Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... piece of the best poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this slight essay then was to you ; and am secure of the kind reception you will now give to it ; improved , as I think it is , in some respects , and presented to you in ...
... piece of the best poet . I recollect with pleasure how welcome this slight essay then was to you ; and am secure of the kind reception you will now give to it ; improved , as I think it is , in some respects , and presented to you in ...
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... piece , is so apparent , that it hath not escaped the dullest and least attentive of its critics . For , however all the different kinds of poetry might appear to enter into it , yet every one saw , that some at least were very slightly ...
... piece , is so apparent , that it hath not escaped the dullest and least attentive of its critics . For , however all the different kinds of poetry might appear to enter into it , yet every one saw , that some at least were very slightly ...
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... piece , from a simple mistake about the drift of the subject , but , also , from a total inapprehension of the genuin charm and beauty of the epistolary method . And , be- b Præf . in LIB . POET . et l . vi . p . 338 . cause I take this ...
... piece , from a simple mistake about the drift of the subject , but , also , from a total inapprehension of the genuin charm and beauty of the epistolary method . And , be- b Præf . in LIB . POET . et l . vi . p . 338 . cause I take this ...
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... piece ; for the measure , in different satires , appears to have been different . That the design in him was one , I conclude , first , Because Horace expresly informs us , that the form or kind of writing in the satires of Lucilius was ...
... piece ; for the measure , in different satires , appears to have been different . That the design in him was one , I conclude , first , Because Horace expresly informs us , that the form or kind of writing in the satires of Lucilius was ...
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... piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of the subject may sometimes lead him through a devious tract to it . Had his inter- preters attended to this practice , so consonant to the rule of nature before ...
... piece , notwithstanding that the address of the poet , and the delicacy of the subject may sometimes lead him through a devious tract to it . Had his inter- preters attended to this practice , so consonant to the rule of nature before ...
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Side 32 - Doctus iter melius ; mortalia facta peribunt : Nedum sermonum stet honos, et gratia vivax. Multa renascentur, quae jam cecidere ; cadentque Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, Quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi.
Side 74 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
Side 40 - 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...
Side 27 - ... inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter 15 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?
Side 54 - 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.
Side 33 - Descriptas servare vices operumque colores Cur ego si nequeo ignoroque poeta salutor ? Cur nescire pudens prave quam discere malo ? Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult ; Indignatur item privatis ac prope socco 90 Dignis carminibus narrari coena Thyestae.
Side 53 - 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.
Side 47 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Side 37 - 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.
Side 301 - Detrimenta, fugas servorum, incendia ridet ; Non fraudem socio puerove incogitat ullam Pupillo ; vivit siliquis et pane secundo ; Militiae quamquam piger et malus, utilis urbi, Si das hoc parvis quoque rebus magna juvari. 125 Os tenerum pueri balbumque poeta figurat, Torquet ab obscoenis jam nunc sermonibus aurem...