The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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Halaman 135
... learned Cafaubon , Heinfius , Rigaltius , Dacier , and the Dauphin's Ju- . venal ; to which I fhall add fome obfervations of my own .. There has been a long difpute among the modern critics , whether the Romans derived their fatire from ...
... learned Cafaubon , Heinfius , Rigaltius , Dacier , and the Dauphin's Ju- . venal ; to which I fhall add fome obfervations of my own .. There has been a long difpute among the modern critics , whether the Romans derived their fatire from ...
Halaman 141
... learned critick takes notice alfo , in his illuf- trations on the first epiftle of the fecond book , that as the poetry of the Romans , and that of the Grecians , had the fame beginning , at feats of thanksgiving , as it has been ...
... learned critick takes notice alfo , in his illuf- trations on the first epiftle of the fecond book , that as the poetry of the Romans , and that of the Grecians , had the fame beginning , at feats of thanksgiving , as it has been ...
Halaman 152
... learned will approve . And though we have not any thing of Andronicus remaining to juftify my conjecture , yet it is exceeding probable , that having read the works of thofe Grecian wits , his country - men , he imitated not only the ...
... learned will approve . And though we have not any thing of Andronicus remaining to juftify my conjecture , yet it is exceeding probable , that having read the works of thofe Grecian wits , his country - men , he imitated not only the ...
Halaman 156
... learned in the Greek language . His verses were stuffed with frag- ments of it , even to a fault : and he himself believed , according to the Pythagorean opinion , that the foul of Homer was transfufed into him which Perfius ob- ferves ...
... learned in the Greek language . His verses were stuffed with frag- ments of it , even to a fault : and he himself believed , according to the Pythagorean opinion , that the foul of Homer was transfufed into him which Perfius ob- ferves ...
Halaman 159
... the Varronian fatire , but which Varro himfelf calls the Menippean ; becaufe Varro , the most learned of the Romans , was the first - author of it , who imitated , in in his works , the manner of Menippus , the DEDICATIO N. 159.
... the Varronian fatire , but which Varro himfelf calls the Menippean ; becaufe Varro , the most learned of the Romans , was the first - author of it , who imitated , in in his works , the manner of Menippus , the DEDICATIO N. 159.
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Halaman 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Halaman 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Halaman 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Halaman 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Halaman 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Halaman 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Halaman 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Halaman 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Halaman 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Halaman 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.