Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum, Volumen2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1776 |
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... must needs have the advantage of " their old ones : who had no knowledge of writing , " as . n art , or , if they had , took but small care to put " it in practice . " Further , this plea of antiquity is as uncertain in its application ...
... must needs have the advantage of " their old ones : who had no knowledge of writing , " as . n art , or , if they had , took but small care to put " it in practice . " Further , this plea of antiquity is as uncertain in its application ...
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... must be owned , that , though in the office of poets , they were to comply with the popular voice , and echo it back to the ears of fovereignty ; yet , as men , they had too much good fenfe , and too fcrupulous a regard to the [ c ] See ...
... must be owned , that , though in the office of poets , they were to comply with the popular voice , and echo it back to the ears of fovereignty ; yet , as men , they had too much good fenfe , and too fcrupulous a regard to the [ c ] See ...
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... must esteem the office of the true critic to be fo far refembling that of the poet himself , as , within fome proper limitations , to justify the honest liberty here taken . Cum tabulis animum cenforis fumet bonefti ; Audebit quaecunque ...
... must esteem the office of the true critic to be fo far refembling that of the poet himself , as , within fome proper limitations , to justify the honest liberty here taken . Cum tabulis animum cenforis fumet bonefti ; Audebit quaecunque ...
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... must be the more furprized at this strange preference , when he is told , that Aglaophon , at leaft , had the use of only one fingle colour ; whereas Parrhafius and Zeuxis , who are amongst the maximi autores , here glanced at , not ...
... must be the more furprized at this strange preference , when he is told , that Aglaophon , at leaft , had the use of only one fingle colour ; whereas Parrhafius and Zeuxis , who are amongst the maximi autores , here glanced at , not ...
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... must " needs excel the old Roman writers , who had " little or no acquaintance with those arts , and " had been trained , by no previous difcipline , 66 to the exercife of them . " The concifeness of the expreffion made it ne- ceffary ...
... must " needs excel the old Roman writers , who had " little or no acquaintance with those arts , and " had been trained , by no previous difcipline , 66 to the exercife of them . " The concifeness of the expreffion made it ne- ceffary ...
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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.