The Works of the English Poets, Volume 19J. Rivington, 1779 - 366 pages |
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Page 103
... 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 monepoly of his learning when thus , as I may fay , before the rufe 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 monepoly of his learning when thus , as I may fay , before the rufe of the loadstone , or ...
Page 105
... 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 ...
Page 112
... 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 ...
Page 113
... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially 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 ; especially 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 ...
Page 114
... Horace and a Juvenal , in the perfon of the admirable Boileau ; whofe numbers are .excellent , whofe expreffions are noble , whofe 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 , whofe thoughts are juft , whofe language is pure , whofe fatyr is pointed , and whofe fenfe is clofe : what he ...
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