Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Volumen1A. Millar, 1766 |
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... epistle as a collection , though not a fyftem , of criticisms on poetry in general ; with this conceffion however , that the ftage had evidently the largest share in it [ a ] . Under the influence of this prejudice , feveral writers of ...
... epistle as a collection , though not a fyftem , of criticisms on poetry in general ; with this conceffion however , that the ftage had evidently the largest share in it [ a ] . Under the influence of this prejudice , feveral writers of ...
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... EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but of two kinds ; one of which may be called the DIDACTIC ; the other , the ELEGIAC epiftle . By the FIRST I mean all those epiftles , whofe end is to inftruct ; whether ...
... EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but of two kinds ; one of which may be called the DIDACTIC ; the other , the ELEGIAC epiftle . By the FIRST I mean all those epiftles , whofe end is to inftruct ; whether ...
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... Epistle to the Pifos , in the way of continued commentary upon it . And , that the coherence of the feveral parts may be the more diftinctly seen , the Commentary is rendered as concife as poffible ; fome of the finer and lefs obvious ...
... Epistle to the Pifos , in the way of continued commentary upon it . And , that the coherence of the feveral parts may be the more diftinctly seen , the Commentary is rendered as concife as poffible ; fome of the finer and lefs obvious ...
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... first part [ to 89 ] is made preparatory to the main fubject , agreeably to the genius of the Epistle . But elegance , in good hands , always implies pro- D 4 priety ; A priety ; as is the cafe here . For the [ 39 ] N ...
... first part [ to 89 ] is made preparatory to the main fubject , agreeably to the genius of the Epistle . But elegance , in good hands , always implies pro- D 4 priety ; A priety ; as is the cafe here . For the [ 39 ] N ...
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... epistle to Augustus adds fome weight to this conjecture ; nec meus audet REM tentare PUDOR , quam vires ferre recufent 45. Hoc AMET , HOC SPERNAT , PROMISSI CARMINIS AUCTOR - IN VERBIS ETIAM TENUIS CAUTUSQUE SERENDIS . ] Dr. Bentley ...
... epistle to Augustus adds fome weight to this conjecture ; nec meus audet REM tentare PUDOR , quam vires ferre recufent 45. Hoc AMET , HOC SPERNAT , PROMISSI CARMINIS AUCTOR - IN VERBIS ETIAM TENUIS CAUTUSQUE SERENDIS . ] Dr. Bentley ...
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Página 28 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Página 3 - ... adsuitur pannus, cum lucus et ara Dianae et properantis aquae per amoenos ambitus agros aut flumen Rhenum aut pluvius describitur arcus; sed nunc non erat his locus. et fortasse cupressum scis simulare: quid hoc, si fractis enatat exspes 20 navibus, aere dato qui pingitur?
Página 32 - Ducere quo vellet. Fuit haec sapientia quondam, Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis, Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno ; Sic honor et nomen divinis vatibus atque 400 Carminibus venit. Post hos insignis Homerus Tyrtaeusque mares animos in Martia bella...
Página 8 - Ut silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos, Prima cadunt ; ita verborum vetus interit aetas, Et juvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
Página 63 - Thence first came up the title of Blank Verse ; — You know, Sir, what Blank signifies ?— when the sense, First framed, is tied with Adjectives like points, And could not hold together without wedges : Hang 't, 'tis pedantic, vulgar Poetry. Let children, when they versify, stick here And there these piddling words for want of matter Poets write Masculine Numbers. [From the " Guardian," a Comedy, by Abraham Cow ley, 1650.
Página 9 - Musa dedit fidibus divos puerosque deorum Et pugilem victorem et equum certamine primum Et juvenum curas et libera vina referre.
Página 14 - Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri, Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo ; Semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et...
Página 257 - Ores.tes, were he to return to this Argos ? El. Ah ! wherefore that question, when there is no prospect of his return at all ? Or. But supposing he should return, how would he go about to revenge the death of his father ? El. In the same way, in which that father suffered from the daring attempts of his enemies. Or. And could you then dare to undertake with him the murder of your mother ? El. Yes, with that very steel, with which she murdered my father. Or. And am I at liberty to relate this to your...
Página 129 - Now if such an audience could so easily misinterpret an attention to the truth of character into the real doctrine of the poet, and this too, when a chorus was at hand to correct and disabuse their judgments, what must be the case, when the whole is left to the sagacity and penetration of the people? The wiser sort, 'tis true, have little need of this information.
Página 189 - S;c. 1736. later writers speak of him as the INVENTOR of this Poem. But to return to our proper subject, the Greek Satyrs. III. For the absolute merit of these satyrs, the reader will judge of it himself by comparing the Cyclops, the only piece of this kind remaining to us from antiquity, ' with the rules here delivered by Horace. Only it may be observed, in addition to what the reader will find elsewhere...