The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... virtue ; of an exemplary life ; and of the best principles in Church and State . As Governor to the Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick , he was very attentive to his charge , and executed that trust with great propriety and dignity ...
... virtue ; of an exemplary life ; and of the best principles in Church and State . As Governor to the Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick , he was very attentive to his charge , and executed that trust with great propriety and dignity ...
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... virtues , which you brought with you to the University , and which had already grown up to some maturity under the care of a man , to whom we had both of us been extremely obliged ; and who possessed every talent of a perfect institutor ...
... virtues , which you brought with you to the University , and which had already grown up to some maturity under the care of a man , to whom we had both of us been extremely obliged ; and who possessed every talent of a perfect institutor ...
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... virtue , and so writers [ from v . 23 to 25 ] come to transgress the rule of right from their very ambition to observe it . There are two cases , in which this ambi- tion remarkably misleads us . The first is when it tempts us to push ...
... virtue , and so writers [ from v . 23 to 25 ] come to transgress the rule of right from their very ambition to observe it . There are two cases , in which this ambi- tion remarkably misleads us . The first is when it tempts us to push ...
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... virtue ? And the agitation of these passions is even , in real life , accompanied with a certain delight , which was , no doubt , intended to quicken us in the exercise of those social offices . Still further . 5. To the pleasure ...
... virtue ? And the agitation of these passions is even , in real life , accompanied with a certain delight , which was , no doubt , intended to quicken us in the exercise of those social offices . Still further . 5. To the pleasure ...
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... , take the part of virtue ; because this is the -natural and almost necessary determination of man- kind , in all ages and nations , when acting freely and unconstrained . But then it is to be observed 156 NOTES ON THE 4.
... , take the part of virtue ; because this is the -natural and almost necessary determination of man- kind , in all ages and nations , when acting freely and unconstrained . But then it is to be observed 156 NOTES ON THE 4.
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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.