 | Sir Richard Blackmore - 1715 - 568 страници
...have therefore form'da Poem on this great and importsnt Subject, that I might give it the Advantsges peculiar to Poetry, and adapt , it more to the general Apprehenfion and Capaciry of Mankind.,. 'The Harmony of Numbets engages many to read and retsin what they would neglect,... | |
 | Sir Richard Blackmore - 1806 - 242 страници
...obscure, dry and disagreeable. I have therefore formed a poem on this great and important subject, that I might give it the advantages peculiar to poetry, and adapt it more to the general apprehension and capacity of mankind. The ha?-- many of numbers engages many to read and retain what... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 страници
...obscure, dry, and disagreeable. I have therefore formed a poem on this great and important subject, that J might give it the advantages peculiar to poetry, and adapt it more to the general apprehension and capacity of mankind. The harmony of numbers engages many to read and retain what they... | |
 | 1917 - 692 страници
...his argument has been stated, he says, in a manner "obscure, dry and disagreeable " ; he himself will give it the advantages peculiar to poetry, and adapt it more to the general apprehension and capacity of mankind " — an undertaking in which he is encouraged by the belief that... | |
 | 1917 - 346 страници
...his argument has been stated, he says, in a manner "obscure, dry and disagreeable " ; he himself will give it the advantages peculiar to poetry, and adapt it more to the general apprehension and capacity of mankind " — an undertaking in which he is encouraged by the belief that... | |
 | Aileen Douglas - 1995 - 244 страници
...Blackmore, in the preface to his own counterEpicurean philosophical poem Creation, says of Lucretius: "The Harmony of Numbers engages many to read and retain what they would neglect if written in Prose; and I persuade myself the Epicurean Philosophy had not liv'd so long,... | |
 | Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman, Professor of French Patrick Coleman - 2005 - 265 страници
...a traditional view of the powers of poetry, has 'formed a poem on this great and important subject, that I might give it the advantages peculiar to poetry, and adapt it more to the general apprehension and capacity of mankind.'45 In fact, he set out to challenge Lucretius, recognizing the... | |
 | Sir Richard Blackmore - 1797 - 200 страници
...obicure, dry and difagreeable. I have therefore formed a poem on this great and important fubject, that I might give it the advantages peculiar to poetry,...numbers engages many to read and retain what they would neglect, if written in profe ; and I perluade myfelf the Epicurean philofophy had not lived lo long,... | |
 | 1917 - 346 страници
...argument has been stated, he says, in a manner " obscure, dry and disagreeable " ; he himself will give it the advantages peculiar to poetry, and adapt it more to the general apprehension and capacity of mankind " — an undertaking in which he is encouraged by the belief that... | |
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I persuade myself the Epicurean philosophy had not lived so long, nor been so much esteemed, had it not been kept alive and propagated by the famous poem... 