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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... compa- rable to his other poems . It is often greatly la- boured , and of course deficient in that easy fluency of verfification which is visible in the rest . The speeches are frequently too long ; and the work wants ( xiii )
... compa- rable to his other poems . It is often greatly la- boured , and of course deficient in that easy fluency of verfification which is visible in the rest . The speeches are frequently too long ; and the work wants ( xiii )
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Marco Girolamo Vida (bp. of Alba.) speeches are frequently too long ; and the work wants in general that curiofa felicitas , that happy propriety of sentiment and expression , which he was well able to have communicated to a subject to ...
Marco Girolamo Vida (bp. of Alba.) speeches are frequently too long ; and the work wants in general that curiofa felicitas , that happy propriety of sentiment and expression , which he was well able to have communicated to a subject to ...
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... speech , Lest dull pretenders with illib'ral arts And fordid notions , blaft the brightest parts , With vulgar views and style obscene debase , 145 And fix a taint no labour can efface . How I despise the coxcombs who pretend , Of ...
... speech , Lest dull pretenders with illib'ral arts And fordid notions , blaft the brightest parts , With vulgar views and style obscene debase , 145 And fix a taint no labour can efface . How I despise the coxcombs who pretend , Of ...
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... speech and manners vex the land . No honour'd bard invokes the Muse's aid ; Spurns the polluted foil th ' Athenian maid ; To thirst of gold the polish'd arts give way , And vice and dulness reign with mutual sway . Long did the fullen ...
... speech and manners vex the land . No honour'd bard invokes the Muse's aid ; Spurns the polluted foil th ' Athenian maid ; To thirst of gold the polish'd arts give way , And vice and dulness reign with mutual sway . Long did the fullen ...
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... speech , what figures may combine , 665 With mutual aid to perfect the design , Oft he revolves ; and now before his eyes A thousand schemes in swift fucceffion rise ; No indolent delay , no rest he knows , With various thought his ...
... speech , what figures may combine , 665 With mutual aid to perfect the design , Oft he revolves ; and now before his eyes A thousand schemes in swift fucceffion rise ; No indolent delay , no rest he knows , With various thought his ...
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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 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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