An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Τόμος 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Horace proverbially alluded to in his first epistle . The name of Glycon is to this day preserved on the base of the figure , as the maker of it ; and as the virtu- ofi , customarily in fpeaking of a picture , or * Luxuriatque toris ...
... Horace proverbially alluded to in his first epistle . The name of Glycon is to this day preserved on the base of the figure , as the maker of it ; and as the virtu- ofi , customarily in fpeaking of a picture , or * Luxuriatque toris ...
Σελίδα 13
Joseph Warton. ftatue , call it their RAPHAEL or BERNINI , why should not Horace , in common speech , use the name of the workman , instead of the work ? To mention the Hefperian apples , which the artist flung backwards , and almoft ...
Joseph Warton. ftatue , call it their RAPHAEL or BERNINI , why should not Horace , in common speech , use the name of the workman , instead of the work ? To mention the Hefperian apples , which the artist flung backwards , and almoft ...
Σελίδα 29
... HORACE , ARISTOTLE , TULLY . It is obfervable , that our author has omitted the great dramatic poets of Greece . Sophocles and Euripides deserved certainly an honourable niche in the Temple of FAME , in preference to Pindar and Horace ...
... HORACE , ARISTOTLE , TULLY . It is obfervable , that our author has omitted the great dramatic poets of Greece . Sophocles and Euripides deserved certainly an honourable niche in the Temple of FAME , in preference to Pindar and Horace ...
Σελίδα 30
... Horace and Virgil , for inftance , who in their different kinds do not surpass the authors in question ; whilst hardly a critic among us , has profeffedly point- ed out their excellencies . Even real scholars think it sufficient to be ...
... Horace and Virgil , for inftance , who in their different kinds do not surpass the authors in question ; whilst hardly a critic among us , has profeffedly point- ed out their excellencies . Even real scholars think it sufficient to be ...
Σελίδα 43
... Horace with that spirited stanza , Ter fi refurgat murus aheneus Auctore Phoebo , ter pereat meis Excifus Arvigis , ter uxor Capta , virum , puerofque ploret . What follows furely weakens the conclufion of this ode , and is ...
... Horace with that spirited stanza , Ter fi refurgat murus aheneus Auctore Phoebo , ter pereat meis Excifus Arvigis , ter uxor Capta , virum , puerofque ploret . What follows furely weakens the conclufion of this ode , and is ...
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Σελίδα 128 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Σελίδα 245 - Consult the Genius of the Place in all; That tells the Waters or to rise, or fall; Or helps th...
Σελίδα 289 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Σελίδα 142 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Σελίδα 165 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Σελίδα 319 - As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
Σελίδα 429 - Lo! at the Wheels of her Triumphal Car, Old England's Genius, rough with many a Scar, Dragg'd in the Dust! his Arms hang idly round, His Flag inverted trails along the ground! Our Youth, all liv'ry'd o'er with foreign Gold, Before her dance; behind her crawl the Old!
Σελίδα 290 - Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Σελίδα 157 - See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Σελίδα 176 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...