The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... rules of good writing ; to be gotten by heart by every young student ; and to whose decisive authority the great- est masters in taste and composition must finally submit . But the more unquestioned the credit of this poem is , the more ...
... rules of good writing ; to be gotten by heart by every young student ; and to whose decisive authority the great- est masters in taste and composition must finally submit . But the more unquestioned the credit of this poem is , the more ...
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... rules . Nay its effects have reached still further . For , conceiving as they did , that the whole had been composed out of the Greek critics , the labour and ingenuity of its interpreters have been misemployed in picking out ...
... rules . Nay its effects have reached still further . For , conceiving as they did , that the whole had been composed out of the Greek critics , the labour and ingenuity of its interpreters have been misemployed in picking out ...
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... rules and labour of composition were exactly the same in these two poems . Though the critics on Statius , not appre- hending this identity , or exact correspondence be- tween the satire and epistle , have unnecessarily , and without ...
... rules and labour of composition were exactly the same in these two poems . Though the critics on Statius , not appre- hending this identity , or exact correspondence be- tween the satire and epistle , have unnecessarily , and without ...
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... rules . III . These rules are reducible to three . 1. that there be an unity in the subject . 2. a connexion in the ... rule of nature before explained , they could ne- ver have found an art of poetry in the epistle , we are about to ...
... rules . III . These rules are reducible to three . 1. that there be an unity in the subject . 2. a connexion in the ... rule of nature before explained , they could ne- ver have found an art of poetry in the epistle , we are about to ...
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... subject of the epistle , containing some ge- neral rules and reflexions on poetry , but principally with an eye to the following parts : by which means it VOL . I. C Reddatur formae . Pictoribus atque poetis 10 Quidlibet audendi semper.
... subject of the epistle , containing some ge- neral rules and reflexions on poetry , but principally with an eye to the following parts : by which means it VOL . I. C Reddatur formae . Pictoribus atque poetis 10 Quidlibet audendi semper.
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Page 46 - Natura fieret laudabile carmen an arte Quaesitum est : ego nee Studium sine divite vena Nee rude quid possit video ingenium ; alterius sic 410 Altera poscit opem res et conjurat amice.
Page 29 - Semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et quae Desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit ; 150 Atque ita mentitur, sic veris falsa remiscet, Primo ne medium, medio ne discrepet imum.
Page 36 - Graeca nocturna versate manu, versate diurna. at vestri proavi Plautinos et numeros et 270 laudavere sales ; nimium patienter utrumque, ne dicam stulte, mirati, si modo ego et vos scimus inurbanum lepido seponere dicto, legitimumque sonum digitis callemus et aure.
Page 28 - Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet. Difficile est proprie communia dicere ; tuque Rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus, Quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus.
Page 39 - ... ergo fungar vice cotis, acutum reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi...
Page 39 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons : rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.
Page 45 - Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva ; 385 Id tibi judicium est, ea mens ; si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat judicis aures Et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum : Membranis intus positis delere licebit, Quod non edideris ; nescit vox missa reverti.
Page 25 - Vincentem strepitus et natum rebus agendis. Musa dedit fidibus divos puerosque deorum, Et pugilem victorem et equum certamine primum, Et juvenum curas et libera vina referre.
Page 27 - Jura neget sibi nata, nihil non arroget armis ; Sit Medea ferox invictaque, flebilis Ino, Perfidus Ixion, lo vaga, tristis Orestes.
Page 267 - Dicitur Afrani toga convenisse Menandro ; Plautus ad exemplar Siculi properare Epicharmi ; Vincere Caecilius gravitate, Terentius arte. Hos ediscit, et hos arto stipata theatro Spectat Roma potens ; habet hos numeratque poetas Ad nostrum tempus, Livi scriptoris ab aevo.