Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Volume 3A. Millar, 1766 |
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Pagina 5
... himself to the fingle view of taking a faithful and ex- act tranfcript . And even this can be allow- ed only , when the copyift is of inferior , or at most but of equal , talents . Nay , it is not certainly to be relied upon even then ...
... himself to the fingle view of taking a faithful and ex- act tranfcript . And even this can be allow- ed only , when the copyift is of inferior , or at most but of equal , talents . Nay , it is not certainly to be relied upon even then ...
Pagina 8
... himself in explaining from re- mote and infufficient confiderations ; but confcioufnefs and common feeling will never fuffer us to doubt of its being entirely na- tural . Accordingly we may obferve , that it operates univerfally on all ...
... himself in explaining from re- mote and infufficient confiderations ; but confcioufnefs and common feeling will never fuffer us to doubt of its being entirely na- tural . Accordingly we may obferve , that it operates univerfally on all ...
Pagina 9
... himself from quitting his proper purfuit , and stopping a while to furvey and delineate the enchant- ing image . This is the character of what we call a luxuriant fancy , which all the ri- gour of art can hardly keep down ; and we give ...
... himself from quitting his proper purfuit , and stopping a while to furvey and delineate the enchant- ing image . This is the character of what we call a luxuriant fancy , which all the ri- gour of art can hardly keep down ; and we give ...
Pagina 13
... himself out of that stock of rural images , which are repofited in the memory , is , in fact , the fub- ftance of all thofe lufcious and luxuriant paintings , which poetry hath ever been able to feign . For what more is there in the ...
... himself out of that stock of rural images , which are repofited in the memory , is , in fact , the fub- ftance of all thofe lufcious and luxuriant paintings , which poetry hath ever been able to feign . For what more is there in the ...
Pagina 23
... himself to this province of his art , hath only to confult with his own confcious re- flexion . Whatever be the fituation of the perfons , whom he would make known to us , let him but take counfel of his own heart [ b ] , and it will ...
... himself to this province of his art , hath only to confult with his own confcious re- flexion . Whatever be the fituation of the perfons , whom he would make known to us , let him but take counfel of his own heart [ b ] , and it will ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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