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... bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung —————— Where more is meant than meets the ear . Thus , Night , oft see me in thy pale career . MILTON . PART I. IN Sarra's city once , in Tartary , reign'd A king , who war with Russia's ...
... bards beside In sage and solemn tunes have sung —————— Where more is meant than meets the ear . Thus , Night , oft see me in thy pale career . MILTON . PART I. IN Sarra's city once , in Tartary , reign'd A king , who war with Russia's ...
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... bard in whom we all admire , And own , transfused , the mighty Homer's fire . * Careless of critic tongues , I shape the soil With changeful fancy , and uncertain toil ; Careless I hear the rainy winds resound , Or wait their influence ...
... bard in whom we all admire , And own , transfused , the mighty Homer's fire . * Careless of critic tongues , I shape the soil With changeful fancy , and uncertain toil ; Careless I hear the rainy winds resound , Or wait their influence ...
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... si velit , et varias inducere plumas Undique collectis membris , ut turpiter atrem Desinat in piscem mulier formosa supernè ' Spectatum admissi , risum teneatis amici ? I Own , bards , that such a picture seems Scarce E 2.
... si velit , et varias inducere plumas Undique collectis membris , ut turpiter atrem Desinat in piscem mulier formosa supernè ' Spectatum admissi , risum teneatis amici ? I Own , bards , that such a picture seems Scarce E 2.
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John Penn. Own , bards , that such a picture seems Scarce stranger , than a book , like dreams That scare the sick , with fancies fraught Betraying no consistent thought ; In which the whole is void of art , And neither head nor tail a ...
John Penn. Own , bards , that such a picture seems Scarce stranger , than a book , like dreams That scare the sick , with fancies fraught Betraying no consistent thought ; In which the whole is void of art , And neither head nor tail a ...
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... bards ' relinquish'd their dispute . 4 * Pope well , for satire , Spleen alarm'd 4 With his own iron couplets arm'd ; Res I gestæ regumque ducumque , et tristia bella Quo scribi possent numero , monstravit Homerus . 2 Versibus impariter ...
... bards ' relinquish'd their dispute . 4 * Pope well , for satire , Spleen alarm'd 4 With his own iron couplets arm'd ; Res I gestæ regumque ducumque , et tristia bella Quo scribi possent numero , monstravit Homerus . 2 Versibus impariter ...
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Page 87 - Syllaba longa brevi subjecta vocatur iambus, Pes citus ; unde etiam trimetris accrescere jussit Nomen iambeis, quum senos redderet ictus Primus ad extremum similis sibi. Non ita pridem, Tardior ut paulo graviorque veniret ad aures, 255 Spondees stabiles in jura paterna recepit Commodus et patiens, non ut de sede secunda Cederet aut quarta socialiter.
Page 71 - Publica materies privati juris erit, si Non circa vilem patulumque moraberis orbem : Nee verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres ; nee desilies imitator in arctum, Unde pedem proferre pudor vetet, aut operis lex. The commentary thus illustrates it : " But the formation of quite new characters is a work of great difficulty and hazard.
Page 91 - Successit vetus his comoedia, non sine multa Laude ; sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim Dignam lege regi ; lex est accepta chorusque Turpiter obticuit sublato jure nocendi.
Page 5 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, no Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass. And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 62 - Quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, Quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi.
Page 73 - Non fumum ex fulgore sed ex fumo dare lucem Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat, Antiphaten Scyllamque et cum Cyclope Chary bdin. 145 Nec reditum Diomedis ab interitu Meleagri, Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo ; Semper ad eventum festinat et in medias res Non secus ac notas auditorem rapit, et quae...
Page 75 - ... tandem custode remoto, gaudet equis canibusque et aprici gramine campi, cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris, sublimis cupidusque et amata relinquere pernix.
Page 59 - In verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis, Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte...
Page 83 - Ne quicunque deus, quicunque adhibebitur heros, Regali conspectus in auro nuper et ostro, Migret in obscuras humili sermone tabernas, Aut dum vitat humum nubes et inania captet.
Page 74 - Imberbus iuvenis, tandem custode remoto, gaudet equis canibusque et aprici gramine campi, cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris...