Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth CenturyYale University Press, 1918 - 641 páginas |
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... presents three series of medals . The first represents the virtues , ' ' an assembly of the most virtuous ladies that you have ever , perhaps , conversed with . . . . They are some of those imaginary per- sons .. that inhabit old coins ...
... presents three series of medals . The first represents the virtues , ' ' an assembly of the most virtuous ladies that you have ever , perhaps , conversed with . . . . They are some of those imaginary per- sons .. that inhabit old coins ...
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... present themselves to you under the shape of women . This ... is a geography particu- lar to the medalists . The poets , however , have sometimes given in to it , and furnish us with very good lights for the explication of it . ' Of ...
... present themselves to you under the shape of women . This ... is a geography particu- lar to the medalists . The poets , however , have sometimes given in to it , and furnish us with very good lights for the explication of it . ' Of ...
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... presents herself to the emperor in the same posture that the Germans and English still salute the imperial and royal family : jus imperiumque Phraates Cæsaris accepit genibus minor . ' ' Smyrna is always represented by an Amazon that is ...
... presents herself to the emperor in the same posture that the Germans and English still salute the imperial and royal family : jus imperiumque Phraates Cæsaris accepit genibus minor . ' ' Smyrna is always represented by an Amazon that is ...
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... present . ' second illustration is that of Mars , 2 Tunica cinctum adamantina , drawn thus sometimes in antique basso - rilievo . The Leaving Rome , Addison follows the poets from town to town in the surrounding country . " Tivoli is ...
... present . ' second illustration is that of Mars , 2 Tunica cinctum adamantina , drawn thus sometimes in antique basso - rilievo . The Leaving Rome , Addison follows the poets from town to town in the surrounding country . " Tivoli is ...
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... present plays at the Play - house in Drury Lane , and uses as his motto the two words from Horace : Ludicra pono . It is a peculiarity of Steele's to use the same mottos more than once , some rather frequently . He is fond of ...
... present plays at the Play - house in Drury Lane , and uses as his motto the two words from Horace : Ludicra pono . It is a peculiarity of Steele's to use the same mottos more than once , some rather frequently . He is fond of ...
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Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century, Volumen1 Caroline Mabel Goad Vista de fragmentos - 1967 |
Términos y frases comunes
Addison admire Alexander Pope ALLUSION TO HORACE ancient Aristotle Art of Poetry Augustus beauty Ben Jonson Boileau Bolingbroke Boswell character Chesterfield's Letters Cicero classical Corresp critic Dialogue Earl edition English Epistle Essay expression G. A. Aitken genius give Godson Homer Horace says Horace's lines Horace's Ode Horatian Ibid Imitations of Horace IMPLICIT ALLUSION John Gay Johnson Jonathan Swift Juvenal Latin learning lines of Horace Lord Lord Bolingbroke Mæcenas Matthew Prior mind mottos from Horace nature never Nil admirari nunc Ovid paper paraphrase passage PH.D Pindar poem poet poetical Pope's precept Prior Prose quæ quid Quintilian quotation quotes reader references Richard Steele Roman Rome Satire Second Book Sept speaks Spectator stanza Steele Swift Tatler tells thought tibi Tom Jones translation verse Virgil virtue vitæ Walpole's Letters words writings written
Pasajes populares
Página 419 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Página 409 - Received 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.
Página 264 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 155 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Página 137 - But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach to know, How far your genius, taste, and learning go; Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.
Página 143 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Página 420 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Página 489 - Vive, vale. Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti ; si non his utere mecum.
Página 423 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 22 - Dictus et Amphion, Thebanae conditor urbis, saxa movere sono testudinis et prece blanda 395 ducere quo vellet. Fuit haec sapientia quondam, publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, concubitu prohibere vago, dare iura maritis, oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno ; ' " ' ' sic honor et nomen divinis vatibus atque 400 carminibus venit.