Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth CenturyYale University Press, 1918 - 641 páginas |
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... whole book . ' Milton has added a beautiful contribution to Horatian English poetry by translating the Fifth Ode of the First Book into blank verse . Cowley's translations and paraphrases of Horace are well known . And in Dryden already ...
... whole book . ' Milton has added a beautiful contribution to Horatian English poetry by translating the Fifth Ode of the First Book into blank verse . Cowley's translations and paraphrases of Horace are well known . And in Dryden already ...
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... whole of the century . Where the full extent of this interest may be seen , but at the same time where Horace has been degraded to a use unworthy of him , is in the innumerable critical pamphlets of the day . Such writings are saturated ...
... whole of the century . Where the full extent of this interest may be seen , but at the same time where Horace has been degraded to a use unworthy of him , is in the innumerable critical pamphlets of the day . Such writings are saturated ...
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... whole , and that must be kept in their entirety , are few in number . As such , the Ninth Epistle of the First Book , a letter of introduction addressed to Tiberius , which was cleverly imitated by Prior , which Steele , in No. 493 of ...
... whole , and that must be kept in their entirety , are few in number . As such , the Ninth Epistle of the First Book , a letter of introduction addressed to Tiberius , which was cleverly imitated by Prior , which Steele , in No. 493 of ...
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... whole for an estimate of him , and of his influence upon English authors . In spite of the central thought that is to be found in each one of his Satires and Epistles , he is better known through the many striking lines col- lected at ...
... whole for an estimate of him , and of his influence upon English authors . In spite of the central thought that is to be found in each one of his Satires and Epistles , he is better known through the many striking lines col- lected at ...
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... whole such as poem O navis , referent in mare te novi Fluctus ! 1 It is probable that all the periodical and pamphleteering writers followed the impetus to the seeking of appropriate mottos in Horace which had been given by Addison and ...
... whole such as poem O navis , referent in mare te novi Fluctus ! 1 It is probable that all the periodical and pamphleteering writers followed the impetus to the seeking of appropriate mottos in Horace which had been given by Addison and ...
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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.