Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth CenturyYale University Press, 1918 - 641 sider |
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Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century Caroline Mabel Goad Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1918 |
Horace in the English Literature of the Eighteenth Century Caroline Mabel Goad Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1918 |
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Addison admire Alexander Pope ALLUSION TO HORACE ancient Aristotle Art of Poetry Augustus beauty Ben Jonson Boileau Bolingbroke Boswell character Chesterfield's Letters Cicero classical Corresp critic Dialogue Dryden Earl edition English Epistle Essay expression G. A. Aitken genius give Godson Homer Horace says Horace's lines Horace's Ode Horatian Ibid Imitations of Horace IMPLICIT ALLUSION John Gay Johnson Juvenal Latin learning lines of Horace Lord Lord Bolingbroke Mæcenas Matthew Prior mind mottos from Horace nature never Nil admirari nunc Ovid paper paraphrase passage PH.D Pindar poem poetical poets Pope's praise precept Prior Prose quæ quid Quintilian quotation quotes reader references Roman Rome Satire Second Book Sept speaks Spectator stanza Steele Swift Tatler tells thought tibi Tom Jones translation verse Virgil virtue vitæ Walpole's Letters William Mason words writings written
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Side 419 - A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind ; Nor lose, for that malignant dull delight, The generous pleasure to be charm'd with wit.
Side 264 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Side 584 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Side 155 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Side 137 - But you who seek to give and merit fame, And justly bear a critic's noble name, Be sure yourself and your own reach to know, How far your genius, taste, and learning go; Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.
Side 138 - Received his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit, Who conquer'd nature, should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense : Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way.
Side 143 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Side 56 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Side 76 - Viselli : 105 est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Side 420 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.