| Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 308 pages
...slaughter; but all these are common notions. And certainly as those who, in a Logical dispute, keep in general terms, would hide a fallacy, so those who do it in any Poetical description would vail their ignorance . . . For my own part, if I had litde knowledge of the Sea, yet I have thought... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...slaughter; but all these are common notions. And certainly as those who, in a logical dispute, keep in general terms, would hide a fallacy, so those who...any poetical description would veil their ignorance. descriptas servare vices opcrumque colores cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poeta saluinr? [if in my ignorance... | |
| John Dryden - Poetry - 2002 - 612 pages
...slaughter, but all these are common notions. And certainly as those who, in a logical dispute, keep in go general terms would hide a fallacy, so those who do...any poetical description would veil their ignorance. Descriplas servare vices operumque colores Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, poela salutor? For my own... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 474 pages
...to 'tiiiiversal language; This rule is still stronger with regard to arts not liberal, or confined to few, and therefore far removed from common knowledge...this kind, certainly, is technical navigation. Yet Dry den was of opinion, that a sea-fight ought to b& described in the nautical knowledge •;•: "... | |
| Military art and science - 1885 - 478 pages
...are used at sea; and, certainly," he adds, " as those in a logical dispute keep in general terms to hide a fallacy, so those who do it in any poetical description, would veil their ignorance." Again : " And as I am well satisfied that they are incomparably the best subjects " (the soldier-sailors,... | |
| Military art and science - 1842 - 670 pages
...are used nt sea; and certainly," he adds, " as those in a logical dispute, keep ingenerai terms to hide a fallacy ; so those who do it in any poetical description, would veil their ignorance." Again, — " And, as I am well satisfied that they are incomparably the best subjects" (the soldier-sailors,... | |
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