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... word , LONGINUS was the person , whom , of all the critics of antiquity , nature feems to have formed with the proper talents to give the laft honour to his profeffion , and penetrate the very foul of 6 to * DEDICATION .
... word , LONGINUS was the person , whom , of all the critics of antiquity , nature feems to have formed with the proper talents to give the laft honour to his profeffion , and penetrate the very foul of 6 to * DEDICATION .
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... word , with that gracious finite in his affect , which his strong admirer and faint copyer , Perfius , fo juftly noted in him , and which convinces almoft without the help of argument ; or , to say it more truly , perfuades where it ...
... word , with that gracious finite in his affect , which his strong admirer and faint copyer , Perfius , fo juftly noted in him , and which convinces almoft without the help of argument ; or , to say it more truly , perfuades where it ...
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... word or two in behalf of the remainder of this neglected family ; of those , who , as the poet expreffes it , had rather trust to the equity of the closet , than subject themselves to the caprice and infolence of the theatre . Now , as ...
... word or two in behalf of the remainder of this neglected family ; of those , who , as the poet expreffes it , had rather trust to the equity of the closet , than subject themselves to the caprice and infolence of the theatre . Now , as ...
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... words , to make a god of his patron : who , though neither king , nor pope , was yet the next best material for this manufacture , an archbishop . For , though the critic knew , that it was not every wood that will make a Mercury , yet ...
... words , to make a god of his patron : who , though neither king , nor pope , was yet the next best material for this manufacture , an archbishop . For , though the critic knew , that it was not every wood that will make a Mercury , yet ...
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... words : Ipfe caput tonfae foliis ornatus olivae Dona feram . Jam nunc folemnes ducere pompas Ad delubra juvat , caefofque videre juvencos ; Vel fcena ut verfis difcedat frontibus , utque Purpurea intexti tollant aulaea Britanni . The ...
... words : Ipfe caput tonfae foliis ornatus olivae Dona feram . Jam nunc folemnes ducere pompas Ad delubra juvat , caefofque videre juvencos ; Vel fcena ut verfis difcedat frontibus , utque Purpurea intexti tollant aulaea Britanni . The ...
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Page 155 - But Italy, reviving from the trance Of Vandal, Goth, and Monkish ignorance, With pauses, cadence, and well-vowell'd words, And all the graces a good ear affords, Made rhyme an art, and Dante's polish'd page Restored a silver, not a golden age.
Page 135 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 3 - ... notaque fatali portenta labore subegit, comperit invidiam supremo fine domari. urit enim fulgore suo, qui praegravat artis infra se positas: extinctus amabitur idem. 15 praesenti tibi maturos largimur honores iurandasque tuum per numen ponimus aras, nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes.
Page 138 - ... them as throws the difcourfe out of the ordinary and common phrafe of converfation. Novelty and variety are certain fources of pleafure: a...
Page 188 - ... portraits of this vicious taste are the admiration of common starers, who, if they find a picture of a miser for instance (as there is no commoner subject of moral portraits) in a collection, where every muscle is strained, and feature hardened into the expression of this idea, never fail to profess their wonder and approbation of it. — On this idea of excellence, Le Brun's book of the PASSIONS...
Page 44 - ... for its novelty, preferable to the fublimer, but trite, themes of the Greek writers. Not but he intended, on fome future occafion, to adorn a nobler fubjeft.
Page 74 - ... be taken in a different sense when it is joined with one of the things, from what it has in conjunction with the other.
Page 245 - And lastly, his style in picturing characters, though masterly, was without that elegance of hand, which is required to correct and allay the force of so bold a colouring. Thus, the biass of his nature leading him to Plautus rather than Terence for his model, it is not to be wondered that his wit is too frequently caustic ; his raillery coarse ; and his humour excessive.
Page 6 - Scriptor abhinc annos centum qui decidit inter Perfectos veteresque referri debet, an inter Viles atque novos? Excludat jurgia finis. Est vetus atque probus centum qui perficit annos.
Page 82 - FATA Nepotum. This idea then of the sacred shield, the guard and glory of Rome, and on which, in this advanced situation, depended the fame and fortune of his country, the poet, with extreme elegance and sublimity, transfers to the shield which guarded their great progenitor, while he was laying the first foundations of the Roman Empire.