Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum: With an English Commentary and Notes, to which are Added Critical Dissertations, Volume 3 |
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... concerned . 86 66 First , " Whether that Conformity in Phraje or Sentiment between two writers of differ- ent times , which we call IMITATION , may not with probability enough , for the most part , be accounted for from general caufes ...
... concerned . 86 66 First , " Whether that Conformity in Phraje or Sentiment between two writers of differ- ent times , which we call IMITATION , may not with probability enough , for the most part , be accounted for from general caufes ...
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... concerned . The fame general appearances must be copied by all poets ; the fame particular circum- ftances will frequently occur to all . But to give life and colour to the selected circum- ftance , and imprint it on the imagination ...
... concerned . The fame general appearances must be copied by all poets ; the fame particular circum- ftances will frequently occur to all . But to give life and colour to the selected circum- ftance , and imprint it on the imagination ...
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... concerns the clafs of oecono- mical fentiments ; or fuch prudential conclu- fions , as offer themselves on certain conjunc- tures of ordinary life , thefe , it is plain , depending very much on the free exercise of our reafoning powers ...
... concerns the clafs of oecono- mical fentiments ; or fuch prudential conclu- fions , as offer themselves on certain conjunc- tures of ordinary life , thefe , it is plain , depending very much on the free exercise of our reafoning powers ...
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... concern for Chryfis in the fame manner : Nonnunquam conlacrumabat : placuit tum id mihi . Sic cogitabam : hic parvae confuetudinis Caufa hujus mortem tam fert familiariter : Quid fi ipfe amâffet ? Quid mihj hic faciet patri ? It were ...
... concern for Chryfis in the fame manner : Nonnunquam conlacrumabat : placuit tum id mihi . Sic cogitabam : hic parvae confuetudinis Caufa hujus mortem tam fert familiariter : Quid fi ipfe amâffet ? Quid mihj hic faciet patri ? It were ...
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... concern at prefent , is with thofe vifible , external indications , the fenfible marks and figna- tures ( as expreffed in look , air , and action ) of this tormenting frenzy . The history of thefe , thefe , as related in the narrative ...
... concern at prefent , is with thofe vifible , external indications , the fenfible marks and figna- tures ( as expreffed in look , air , and action ) of this tormenting frenzy . The history of thefe , thefe , as related in the narrative ...
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Page 178 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 193 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 160 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Page 164 - To lie in coldobftruftion, and to rot ; This fenfible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted fpirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 169 - Shakespeare, forget that the Pagan Imagery was familiar to all the Poets of his time ; and that abundance of this sort of learning was to be picked up from almost every English book that he could take into his hands.
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Page 165 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state.