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Side 140
... moral lesson ; and some writers have even ele- vated the eclogue to the sublimest subjects , as Mr. Pope in his Messiah , which is a happy imitation of Virgil's Pollio . English wit has even given us a specimen of the burlesque Idyl ...
... moral lesson ; and some writers have even ele- vated the eclogue to the sublimest subjects , as Mr. Pope in his Messiah , which is a happy imitation of Virgil's Pollio . English wit has even given us a specimen of the burlesque Idyl ...
Side 149
... moral poems of Horace , Juvenal , Pope , and Johnson ; the Georgics of Virgil , or the Essay on Criticism , can be compared , in point of real importance , with the elegies of Tibullus , or the odes even of Gray ; it is as poems only ...
... moral poems of Horace , Juvenal , Pope , and Johnson ; the Georgics of Virgil , or the Essay on Criticism , can be compared , in point of real importance , with the elegies of Tibullus , or the odes even of Gray ; it is as poems only ...
Side 150
... morals the didactic poems are innumer- able . To poems of the two first classes , the rules laid down in treating of didactic compositions in prose will generally apply . As the poet's object , however , is in a great measure to please ...
... morals the didactic poems are innumer- able . To poems of the two first classes , the rules laid down in treating of didactic compositions in prose will generally apply . As the poet's object , however , is in a great measure to please ...
Side 151
... moral poems , I shall briefly notice a few of the prin cipal writers in the two first divisions . The first didactic poem extant was undoubt- edly Hesiod's Epywy xas Hμegwv , “ Of Works and Days . " I read it attentively in early life ...
... moral poems , I shall briefly notice a few of the prin cipal writers in the two first divisions . The first didactic poem extant was undoubt- edly Hesiod's Epywy xas Hμegwv , “ Of Works and Days . " I read it attentively in early life ...
Side 155
... moral epistles and satires , the Ars Poetica contains many excellent precepts , and very many lively and spirited thoughts . Vida has imitated Horace with more of re- gularity , but less of spirit . The poem is , how- ever , not ...
... moral epistles and satires , the Ars Poetica contains many excellent precepts , and very many lively and spirited thoughts . Vida has imitated Horace with more of re- gularity , but less of spirit . The poem is , how- ever , not ...
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