Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, Volumen3T. Cadel, 1787 |
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... EPISTLE TO THE PISOS . The Author's Idea of that Epiftle , fubmitted to his learned Friends and to the Publick . Page 1. QUINTI HORATII FLACCI EPISTOLA AD PISONES . TRANSLATION . P. 34. NOTES ON THE ART OF POETRY . Particular Comments ...
... EPISTLE TO THE PISOS . The Author's Idea of that Epiftle , fubmitted to his learned Friends and to the Publick . Page 1. QUINTI HORATII FLACCI EPISTOLA AD PISONES . TRANSLATION . P. 34. NOTES ON THE ART OF POETRY . Particular Comments ...
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... Epistle in queftion has very particularly exercised the critical fagacity of the literary world ; yet it is remarkable that , amidst the great variety of comments and de- cifions on the work , it has been almost universally confidered ...
... Epistle in queftion has very particularly exercised the critical fagacity of the literary world ; yet it is remarkable that , amidst the great variety of comments and de- cifions on the work , it has been almost universally confidered ...
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... Epistle fo little allude to the Drama , that the only paffage in which a mention of the Stage has been supposed to be implied , [ ludufque repertus , & c . ] is , by the learned and ingenious Critick himself , particularly distinguished ...
... Epistle fo little allude to the Drama , that the only paffage in which a mention of the Stage has been supposed to be implied , [ ludufque repertus , & c . ] is , by the learned and ingenious Critick himself , particularly distinguished ...
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... Epistle , in a manner perfectly agreeable to the conclufion of it . Defcriptas fervare vices , operumque colores , Cur ego fi nequeo ignoroque , poeta falutor ? Cur nefcire , pudens pravè , quam discere malo ? From this general view of ...
... Epistle , in a manner perfectly agreeable to the conclufion of it . Defcriptas fervare vices , operumque colores , Cur ego fi nequeo ignoroque , poeta falutor ? Cur nefcire , pudens pravè , quam discere malo ? From this general view of ...
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... Epistle , and turning short on the ELDER Piso , moft earnestly conjures him to ponder on the danger of precipitate publications , and the ridicule to which the author of wretched poetry expofes himfelf . From the com- mencement of this ...
... Epistle , and turning short on the ELDER Piso , moft earnestly conjures him to ponder on the danger of precipitate publications , and the ridicule to which the author of wretched poetry expofes himfelf . From the com- mencement of this ...
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Página 22 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Página 47 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Página 61 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Página 41 - Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all. Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome, (The world's just wonder, and ev'n thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes; No monstrous height, or breadth or length appear; The whole at once is bold and regular.
Página 48 - Our fons their father's failing language fee, And fuch as Chaucer is, fhall Dryden be. So when the faithful pencil has defign'd Some bright idea of the mafter's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand...
Página 211 - Plunged fairly in, like a cold bath it serves, When principles relax, to brace the nerves: Such is my case; and yet I must deplore That the gay dream of dissipation's o'er.
Página 4 - U t silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos ; Prima cadunt : ita verborum vetus interit aetas, Et juvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
Página 212 - The welcome visitors' approach denote; Farewell all quality of high .renown, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious town! Farewell! your revels I partake no more, And Lady Teazle's occupation's o'er! All this I told our bard; he smiled, and said 'twas clear, I ought to play deep tragedy next year.
Página 18 - Munus et officium, nil scribens ipse, docebo ; Unde parentur opes ; quid alat formetque poetam ; Quid deceat, quid non ; quo virtus, quo ferat error.
Página 210 - Old bachelors, who marry smart young wives, Learn from our play to regulate your lives: Each bring his dear to town, all faults upon her — London will prove the very source of honour.