Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Volumen2A. Millar, 1766 |
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... farce , it was with the greatest shyness and reluctance , that the humility of thefe lords of the univerfe could permit itself to accept the enfigns of deity , as the court - historians of thofe times are for- ' ward to inform us . An ...
... farce , it was with the greatest shyness and reluctance , that the humility of thefe lords of the univerfe could permit itself to accept the enfigns of deity , as the court - historians of thofe times are for- ' ward to inform us . An ...
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... first of all , ftruck out of the old fefcennine farce , and rudely cultivated , by Ennius : Next , more hap- pily treated , and enriched with the best part of the the old comedy , by Lucilius : And , after 126 NOTES ON THE.
... first of all , ftruck out of the old fefcennine farce , and rudely cultivated , by Ennius : Next , more hap- pily treated , and enriched with the best part of the the old comedy , by Lucilius : And , after 126 NOTES ON THE.
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... FARCE . By TRAGEDY , then , I mean that fpecies of dramatic representation , whofe end is " to excite the paffions of PITY and TERROR , and perhaps fome others , nearly allied to them . " By COMEDY that , which propofeth , for the ends ...
... FARCE . By TRAGEDY , then , I mean that fpecies of dramatic representation , whofe end is " to excite the paffions of PITY and TERROR , and perhaps fome others , nearly allied to them . " By COMEDY that , which propofeth , for the ends ...
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... Farce , this will be easily understood , when the character of the other two is once fettled . CHAP . I. ON THE PROVINCES OF TRAGEDY AND COMEDY . FROM the idea of thefe two fpecies , as given above , the following conclufions , about ...
... Farce , this will be easily understood , when the character of the other two is once fettled . CHAP . I. ON THE PROVINCES OF TRAGEDY AND COMEDY . FROM the idea of thefe two fpecies , as given above , the following conclufions , about ...
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... farces , but fuch as were of " ferious entertainment , compofed of grave and acute fentences , & c . " amo x - 57 * Two things are obfervable in this brief account of the Peruvian drama : First , " that its fpecies had refpect to the ...
... farces , but fuch as were of " ferious entertainment , compofed of grave and acute fentences , & c . " amo x - 57 * Two things are obfervable in this brief account of the Peruvian drama : First , " that its fpecies had refpect to the ...
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Página 135 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Página 142 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination.
Página 116 - ... to hold children, from play, and old men from the chimney corner*.
Página 32 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Página 16 - Parthis mendacior, et prius orto sole vigil calamum et chartas et scrinia posco.
Página 74 - This way of joining two such different ideas as chariot and counsel to the same verb is mightily used by Ovid, but is a very low kind of wit, and has always in it a mixture of pun, because the verb must be taken in a different sense when it is joined with one of the things, from what it has in conjunction with the other.
Página 188 - ... portraits of this vicious taste are the admiration of common starers, who, if they find a picture of a miser for instance (as there is no commoner subject of moral portraits) in a collection, where every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into the expression of this idea, never fail to profess their wonder and approbation of it. — On this idea of excellence, Le Brun's book of the PASSIONS...
Página 159 - But Italy, reviving from the trance Of Vandal, Goth, and Monkish ignorance, With pauses, cadence, and well-vowell'd words, And all the graces a good ear affords, Made rhyme an art, and Dante's polish'd page Restored a silver, not a golden age.
Página 81 - They took it, in short, for a mere modern flourish, totally different from the pure unaffected manner of genuin antiquity. And thus far they unquestionably judged right. Their defect was in not seeing that the use of it, as here employed by the Poet, was an exception to the general rule. But to have seen this was not...
Página 143 - When the received system of manners or religion in any country, happens to be so constituted as to suit itself in some degree to this extravagant turn of the human mind, we may expect that poetry will seize it with avidity, will dilate upon it with pleasure, and take a pride to erect its specious wonders on so proper and convenient a ground.