Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Volume 2A. Millar, 1766 |
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Pagina 4
... proper glories of living merit . " So that , as good fenfe demands in every reasonable panegyric , the praise results from the nature and foundation of the 1 § Dictitet Albano Mufas in monte locutas . Si , 4 Q. HORATII FLACCI 1 ...
... proper glories of living merit . " So that , as good fenfe demands in every reasonable panegyric , the praise results from the nature and foundation of the 1 § Dictitet Albano Mufas in monte locutas . Si , 4 Q. HORATII FLACCI 1 ...
Pagina 23
... praise of good writing , that they made it the ordinary topic of their ridicule ; representing it as the mere illufion of vanity , and the pitiable infirmity of lean - witted minds , to be catched by the lure of fo empty and unfüb ...
... praise of good writing , that they made it the ordinary topic of their ridicule ; representing it as the mere illufion of vanity , and the pitiable infirmity of lean - witted minds , to be catched by the lure of fo empty and unfüb ...
Pagina 48
... praise , even under Virgil's management had been infufferable for its extravagance ; and , without fome fupport for his poetical numen to rest upon , the figure had been more forced and strained , than the rules of juft writing allow ...
... praise , even under Virgil's management had been infufferable for its extravagance ; and , without fome fupport for his poetical numen to rest upon , the figure had been more forced and strained , than the rules of juft writing allow ...
Pagina 51
... praise in all the gradual , folemn pre- paration of poetic pomp : that he would render the most grateful offerings to his divinity in those occafional episodes , which he should confecrate to his more immediate honour : and , finally ...
... praise in all the gradual , folemn pre- paration of poetic pomp : that he would render the most grateful offerings to his divinity in those occafional episodes , which he should confecrate to his more immediate honour : and , finally ...
Pagina 65
... praise to Pacuvius . The expreffion is fo put , as if Quinctilian intended a cenfure of thefe critics ; because this pretence to dramatic art , and the ftrict imitation of the Greek poets , was grown , in his time , and long before it ...
... praise to Pacuvius . The expreffion is fo put , as if Quinctilian intended a cenfure of thefe critics ; because this pretence to dramatic art , and the ftrict imitation of the Greek poets , was grown , in his time , and long before it ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 142 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination.
Pagina 116 - ... to hold children, from play, and old men from the chimney corner*.
Pagina 32 - Praecipue cum se numeris commendat et arte : Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.
Pagina 16 - Parthis mendacior, et prius orto sole vigil calamum et chartas et scrinia posco.
Pagina 74 - This way of joining two such different ideas as chariot and counsel to the same verb is mightily used by Ovid, but is a very low kind of wit, and has always in it a mixture of pun, because the verb must be taken in a different sense when it is joined with one of the things, from what it has in conjunction with the other.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 159 - 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.
Pagina 81 - They took it, in short, for a mere modern flourish, totally different from the pure unaffected manner of genuin antiquity. And thus far they unquestionably judged right. Their defect was in not seeing that the use of it, as here employed by the Poet, was an exception to the general rule. But to have seen this was not...
Pagina 143 - When the received system of manners or religion in any country, happens to be so constituted as to suit itself in some degree to this extravagant turn of the human mind, we may expect that poetry will seize it with avidity, will dilate upon it with pleasure, and take a pride to erect its specious wonders on so proper and convenient a ground.