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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... skill . Confidering it fimply as a poem , it is perhaps the happiest and the most elegant of his works : but by those who are for mingling profit with delight , and would be inftructed as well as entertained , the Poetics will ever be ...
... skill . Confidering it fimply as a poem , it is perhaps the happiest and the most elegant of his works : but by those who are for mingling profit with delight , and would be inftructed as well as entertained , the Poetics will ever be ...
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... skill , and art unknown before , He purges from it's drofs the ancient ore : His plastic spirit breathes in ev'ry line , The sense to heighten and the verse refine , 255 In thought , in word a God : O Mufes , rife , And bear your ...
... skill , and art unknown before , He purges from it's drofs the ancient ore : His plastic spirit breathes in ev'ry line , The sense to heighten and the verse refine , 255 In thought , in word a God : O Mufes , rife , And bear your ...
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... skill With love of arts th ' ingenuous bofom fill , A thousand fnares his heedlefs fteps betray , And charm the giddy wanderer from his way . So when the swain , to guard the tender birth Of infant fhoots , prepares the foft'ring earth ...
... skill With love of arts th ' ingenuous bofom fill , A thousand fnares his heedlefs fteps betray , And charm the giddy wanderer from his way . So when the swain , to guard the tender birth Of infant fhoots , prepares the foft'ring earth ...
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... of itself enlighten'd genius learn , As light'ning quick , inftinctive to discern , And blushing to review each latent fault , With polish'd skill , and chafte , fuperior thought , 739 But fhould the cenfor ftern , with critic eye , ( 40 )
... of itself enlighten'd genius learn , As light'ning quick , inftinctive to discern , And blushing to review each latent fault , With polish'd skill , and chafte , fuperior thought , 739 But fhould the cenfor ftern , with critic eye , ( 40 )
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... skill each female art she tries , Glorious in guile , and politicly wife . In deep fufpence th ' impatient fuitors wait , 785 Till , to decide at once each prince's fate , Trembling fhe brings , with lingering steps and flow , From the ...
... skill each female art she tries , Glorious in guile , and politicly wife . In deep fufpence th ' impatient fuitors wait , 785 Till , to decide at once each prince's fate , Trembling fhe brings , with lingering steps and flow , From the ...
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Page 253 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 233 - A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when t' examine ev'ry part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
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Page 251 - The hoarfe, rough verfe fhould like the torrent roar : When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow ; Not fo, when fwift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 231 - By turns a pitchy cloud she rolls on high; By turns hot embers from her entrails fly, And flakes of mounting flames, that lick the sky. Oft from her bowels massy rocks are thrown, And, shiver'd by the force, come piecemeal down.
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Page 237 - And seek the homely cots, or mountain's hollow side. The rapid rains, descending from the hills, To rolling torrents raise the creeping rills. The queen and prince, as Love or Fortune guides, One common cavern in her bosom hides.
Page 207 - Fierce tigers couch'd around, and loll'd their fawning tongues. " So, close in poplar shades, her children gone, The mother nightingale laments alone, Whose nest some prying churl had found, and thence By stealth convey'd th
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