| Horace - 1766 - 282 pagina’s
...of poetry, a choi&e of fuch words as are moft fonorous and expreffive, and fuch an arrangement .of them as throws the difcourfe out of the ordinary and...Novelty and variety are certain fources of pleafure : a conftruftion of words, which is not vulgar, is therefore more fuited to the ends of poetry, than one... | |
| 1784 - 548 pagina’s
...ftyle of poetry, a choice of fuch words as are moft fonorous and expreilive, and fuch an arrangement of them as throws the difcourfe out of the ordinary and...fuited to the ends of poetry than one which we are even' day accuftomed to in familiar difcourfe. Some manners of placing them are alfo more agreeable... | |
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 pagina’s
...certain sources of pleasure : a construction of words, which is not vulgar, is therefore more suited to the ends of poetry, than one which we are every day accustomed to in familiar discourse. Some manners of placing them are, also, more agreeable to the... | |
| Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pagina’s
...certain sources of pleasure : a construction of words, which is not vulgar, is therefore more suited to the ends of poetry than one which we are every day accustomed to in familiar discourse. Some manners of placing them are, also, more agreeable to the... | |
| Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pagina’s
...are certain sources of pleasure; a construction of words which is not vulgar is therefore more suited to the ends of poetry than one which we are every day accustomed to in familar discourse." It follows, then, Hurd goes on, that the purpose of poetry is... | |
| 1784 - 518 pagina’s
...ftyle of poetry, a choice of fuch words as are molt fonorous and exprcffive, and fuch an arrangement of them as throws the difcourfe out of the ordinary and...Novelty and variety are certain fources of pleafure: aconltruftion of words which is not vulgar is, therefore, more fuited to the ends of poetry than one... | |
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