Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum, Volumen2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1776 |
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... humour of fucceed- ing times would be moft difpofed to emulate . The catching enthusiasm and picturesque fancy of the one would be sure to prevail over the coolness and aufterity of the other . Accordingly in the last and prefent ...
... humour of fucceed- ing times would be moft difpofed to emulate . The catching enthusiasm and picturesque fancy of the one would be sure to prevail over the coolness and aufterity of the other . Accordingly in the last and prefent ...
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... humour [ line 101 ] affifted , in this libertine country , to advance and help forward the public tafte . Such was the effect of peace and op portunity with them . Hoc paces habuere bonae ventique fecundi . Whereas the Romans [ to line ...
... humour [ line 101 ] affifted , in this libertine country , to advance and help forward the public tafte . Such was the effect of peace and op portunity with them . Hoc paces habuere bonae ventique fecundi . Whereas the Romans [ to line ...
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... humour of that delicate fort , who are for burning their old poets ; and , to be well with women and court - critics , confine their reading and admiration to the innocent fing- fong of fome soft and fashionable rhymer , whofe utter ...
... humour of that delicate fort , who are for burning their old poets ; and , to be well with women and court - critics , confine their reading and admiration to the innocent fing- fong of fome soft and fashionable rhymer , whofe utter ...
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... humourous , by character , Now it is much more difficult to paint manners , than to plan action ; because that requires the H 4 philo- philofopher's knowledge of human nature ; this , only the EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS . 103 169. SED HABET ...
... humourous , by character , Now it is much more difficult to paint manners , than to plan action ; because that requires the H 4 philo- philofopher's knowledge of human nature ; this , only the EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS . 103 169. SED HABET ...
Página 107
... , here , makes his own feeling the teft of poetical merit . Which is faid with a philofophical exactness . 5 For For the pathos in tragic , humour in comic , EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS . 107 210, ILLE PER EXTENTUM FUNEM, &c....
... , here , makes his own feeling the teft of poetical merit . Which is faid with a philofophical exactness . 5 For For the pathos in tragic , humour in comic , EPISTLE TO AUGUSTUS . 107 210, ILLE PER EXTENTUM FUNEM, &c....
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Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an ..., Volumen2 Horace Vista completa - 1766 |
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Página 155 - 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 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 3 - ... notaque fatali portenta labore subegit, comperit invidiam supremo fine domari. urit enim fulgore suo, qui praegravat artis infra se positas: extinctus amabitur idem. 15 praesenti tibi maturos largimur honores iurandasque tuum per numen ponimus aras, nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes.
Página 138 - ... them as throws the difcourfe out of the ordinary and common phrafe of converfation. Novelty and variety are certain fources of pleafure: a...
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 44 - ... for its novelty, preferable to the fublimer, but trite, themes of the Greek writers. Not but he intended, on fome future occafion, to adorn a nobler fubjeft.
Página 74 - ... 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 245 - And lastly, his style in picturing characters, though masterly, was without that elegance of hand, which is required to correct and allay the force of so bold a colouring. Thus, the biass of his nature leading him to Plautus rather than Terence for his model, it is not to be wondered that his wit is too frequently caustic ; his raillery coarse ; and his humour excessive.
Página 6 - Scriptor abhinc annos centum qui decidit inter Perfectos veteresque referri debet, an inter Viles atque novos? Excludat jurgia finis. Est vetus atque probus centum qui perficit annos.
Página 82 - FATA Nepotum. This idea then of the sacred shield, the guard and glory of Rome, and on which, in this advanced situation, depended the fame and fortune of his country, the poet, with extreme elegance and sublimity, transfers to the shield which guarded their great progenitor, while he was laying the first foundations of the Roman Empire.