Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum, Volume 1 |
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... COMMENTARY . ful writers often plead in defence of their tranf- greffions against the law of UNITY . To 1. 23 is confidered and expofed that particular violation of uniformity , into which young poets efpecially , under the impulfe of a ...
... COMMENTARY . ful writers often plead in defence of their tranf- greffions against the law of UNITY . To 1. 23 is confidered and expofed that particular violation of uniformity , into which young poets efpecially , under the impulfe of a ...
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... COMMENTARY . first is , when it tempts us to push an acknowledged beauty too far . Great beauties are always in the confines of great faults ; and therefore , by affecting fuperior excellence , we are cafily carried into ab . furdity ...
... COMMENTARY . first is , when it tempts us to push an acknowledged beauty too far . Great beauties are always in the confines of great faults ; and therefore , by affecting fuperior excellence , we are cafily carried into ab . furdity ...
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... COMMENTARY . 2. Another inftance , in which we are mifled by an ambition of attaining to what is right , is , when , through an exceffive fear of committing faults , we difquality ourfelves for the juft execution of a whole , or of fuch ...
... COMMENTARY . 2. Another inftance , in which we are mifled by an ambition of attaining to what is right , is , when , through an exceffive fear of committing faults , we difquality ourfelves for the juft execution of a whole , or of fuch ...
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... COMMENTARY , 50 and extent of his own talents : and to be careful to chuse a subject , which is , in all its parts , proportioned to his ftrength and ability . Befides , from fuch an at- tentive furvey of his fubject , and of his ...
... COMMENTARY , 50 and extent of his own talents : and to be careful to chuse a subject , which is , in all its parts , proportioned to his ftrength and ability . Befides , from fuch an at- tentive furvey of his fubject , and of his ...
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... COMMENTARY . berty , the examples of ancient writers , and the vague , ' ünfteddy nature of language itself . From thefe reflexions on poetry , at large , he pro- seeds now to particulars : the most obvious of which being the different ...
... COMMENTARY . berty , the examples of ancient writers , and the vague , ' ünfteddy nature of language itself . From thefe reflexions on poetry , at large , he pro- seeds now to particulars : the most obvious of which being the different ...
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