The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a monopoly of his learning when thus , as I may fay , before the ufe of the loadstone , or ...
... Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a monopoly of his learning when thus , as I may fay , before the ufe of the loadstone , or ...
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... Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their vices ; and in this excel him , that you add that pointedness of thought , which is vifibly wanting in our great Roman . There is more of falt in all your verses ...
... Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their vices ; and in this excel him , that you add that pointedness of thought , which is vifibly wanting in our great Roman . There is more of falt in all your verses ...
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... Horace in Lyric Poetry , but , out of deference to his friends , he attempted neither . The fame prevalence of ... Horace , in whofe excellencies both of Poems , Odes , and Satires you have equalled them , if our language had not yielded ...
... Horace in Lyric Poetry , but , out of deference to his friends , he attempted neither . The fame prevalence of ... Horace , in whofe excellencies both of Poems , Odes , and Satires you have equalled them , if our language had not yielded ...
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... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; efpecially if we take into that century the latter end of the commonwealth ; wherein we find Varro , Lucretius , and Catullus : and at the fame time lived Cicero , Saluft , and Cæfar . A famous ...
... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; efpecially if we take into that century the latter end of the commonwealth ; wherein we find Varro , Lucretius , and Catullus : and at the fame time lived Cicero , Saluft , and Cæfar . A famous ...
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... Horace and a Juvenal , in the perfon of the admirable Boileau ; whofe numbers are ` excellent , whofe expreffions are noble , whose thoughts are juft , whofe language is pure , whofe fatyr is pointed , and whofe fenfe is clofe : what he ...
... Horace and a Juvenal , in the perfon of the admirable Boileau ; whofe numbers are ` excellent , whofe expreffions are noble , whose thoughts are juft , whofe language is pure , whofe fatyr is pointed , and whofe fenfe is clofe : what he ...
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Страница 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Страница 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Страница 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
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Страница 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Страница 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Страница 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Страница 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Страница 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Страница 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.