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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... give new and additional vigour to his imitation . Or , 3 . He may poffefs a ftronger , and more plastic genius , and therefore be enabled to touch , with more force of expreffion , even those particulars , which he profeffedly imitates ...
... give new and additional vigour to his imitation . Or , 3 . He may poffefs a ftronger , and more plastic genius , and therefore be enabled to touch , with more force of expreffion , even those particulars , which he profeffedly imitates ...
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... give the highest praise of judgment to those . few , who have been able to difcipline and confine it within due limits . I infift the more on this ftrong influence of external beauty , because it leads , I think , to a clear view of the ...
... give the highest praise of judgment to those . few , who have been able to difcipline and confine it within due limits . I infift the more on this ftrong influence of external beauty , because it leads , I think , to a clear view of the ...
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... give it the name of oriental bind weed . › It is faid to be a very rambling plant , which climbs up trees , and rifes to a great height in the Levant , where it particularly flourishes , " way K way through it . On the banks of the 12 A ...
... give it the name of oriental bind weed . › It is faid to be a very rambling plant , which climbs up trees , and rifes to a great height in the Levant , where it particularly flourishes , " way K way through it . On the banks of the 12 A ...
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... gives the precife idea , " which was wanting [ f ] . " This , it must be owned , is one of the fureft characteristics of real genius . And if we find it generally in a writer , we may al- most venture to esteem him original without ...
... gives the precife idea , " which was wanting [ f ] . " This , it must be owned , is one of the fureft characteristics of real genius . And if we find it generally in a writer , we may al- most venture to esteem him original without ...
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... give life and colour to the selected circum- ftance , and imprint it on the imagination with distinctness and vivacity , this is the proper office of true genius . An ordinary writer may , by dint of industry , and a care- ful study of ...
... give life and colour to the selected circum- ftance , and imprint it on the imagination with distinctness and vivacity , this is the proper office of true genius . An ordinary writer may , by dint of industry , and a care- ful study of ...
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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.
Page 229 - You that, too wife for pride, too good for pow'r, Enjoy the glory to be great no more, And, carrying with you all the world can boaft, To all the world...
Page 9 - ... been joined, but were afterwards separated from each other by some ' God, for the sake of opening in the midst that large plain which stretches in ' length to about five miles, and in breadth a hundred paces or in some parts
Page 203 - Nature deign'd to lend, As that the walls (worn thin) permit the mind To look out thorough, and his frailty find.
Page 178 - All feafons and thir change, all pleafe alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rifing fweet, With charm of earlieft Birds; pleafant the...
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.