The Poetics of Marcus Hieronymus Vida ... ; with translations from the Latin of dr. Lowth, mr. Gray, and other. By J. Hampson |
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... seems not unworthy the character that has been given him , as the best and most accurate imitator of the Mantuan bard . In poetical compofition every man will take for his model , not perhaps the beft author , but the author moft ...
... seems not unworthy the character that has been given him , as the best and most accurate imitator of the Mantuan bard . In poetical compofition every man will take for his model , not perhaps the beft author , but the author moft ...
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... seems at first to have been confidered by many , and is ftill confidered by fome , as the best of our author's pieces , is most certainly the worst . The Chriftiad , though it contains many excellent paffages , is not compa- rable to ...
... seems at first to have been confidered by many , and is ftill confidered by fome , as the best of our author's pieces , is most certainly the worst . The Chriftiad , though it contains many excellent paffages , is not compa- rable to ...
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... seem Forc'd from it's place , or foreign to the theme . So when Æneas afks his aged fire , Why fhould he fhun to fay if fouls afpire , Snatch'd from this earthy clime , again to fhare The light of life , and breathe the vital air ? 305 ...
... seem Forc'd from it's place , or foreign to the theme . So when Æneas afks his aged fire , Why fhould he fhun to fay if fouls afpire , Snatch'd from this earthy clime , again to fhare The light of life , and breathe the vital air ? 305 ...
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... seem To fwarming hives ; or when , as ant hills teem With their dark nations , fo the hopeless band Of flying Phrygians blackens all the strand : Though fure ' twere paltry , poorly to debase To filthy flies Aufonia's martial race , And ...
... seem To fwarming hives ; or when , as ant hills teem With their dark nations , fo the hopeless band Of flying Phrygians blackens all the strand : Though fure ' twere paltry , poorly to debase To filthy flies Aufonia's martial race , And ...
Page 177
... seems to aim a ftroke at thofe fucceffors of the angelic and irrefragable doctors of the eleventh to the thir teenth and fourteenth centuries , who preferved the fcholaftic pedantry without the ability of their mafters , and were just ...
... seems to aim a ftroke at thofe fucceffors of the angelic and irrefragable doctors of the eleventh to the thir teenth and fourteenth centuries , who preferved the fcholaftic pedantry without the ability of their mafters , and were just ...
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Æneas Æneid allufion ancient bard becauſe beſt breaſt charm compofition courſe Cremona delight diftant diſtinguiſhed ditto divine Eneid Ennius ev'ry expreffion facred faid fame fate fays feems fenfe feven fhades fhall fhew fhore fhould fince fing firft firſt flain flames fome fong foul fource ftill ftrain ftream fubject fuch fuperior genius Georgic grace Greece himſelf Homer Iliad infpire inftances itſelf juft juſt labour Latin Latium learned lefs leſs mafter mind moft moſt Mufe Muſe muſt Newcaſtle numbers o'er obferved occafion Ovid paffage poem poet poet's Poetics poetry pow'r praiſe preſent profe purpoſe purſues Quintilian rage raiſe reafon reft rife riſe ſcarcely ſcene ſeems ſhade ſhall ſhare Silius Italicus ſkies ſkill ſky ſome ſpeak ſpoils ſtately ſtill Sunderland taſk Teverone thee theme theſe thoſe thouſand thro toil Triftram Trojan tuneful Turnus Ulyffes Unleſs uſe verfe verſe Vida Virgil whofe Whoſe youth
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