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... modern instance . Few painters have obliged us with finer scenes , or have possessed the art of combining woods , lakes , and rocks , into more agreeable pic- tures , than G. POUSSIN : Yet his animals are ob- served to be scarce worthy ...
... modern instance . Few painters have obliged us with finer scenes , or have possessed the art of combining woods , lakes , and rocks , into more agreeable pic- tures , than G. POUSSIN : Yet his animals are ob- served to be scarce worthy ...
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... language . A very capable judge hath observed it in regard of the most admired modern one : Nous avons tellement laissé ce qui étoit au viel françois , que nous avons laissé quant et quant la plus part 90 NOTES ON THE.
... language . A very capable judge hath observed it in regard of the most admired modern one : Nous avons tellement laissé ce qui étoit au viel françois , que nous avons laissé quant et quant la plus part 90 NOTES ON THE.
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... modern language , and effeminating the public taste . This was not a little forwarded by , what generally makes its appearance at the same time , a kind of feminine curiosity in the choice of words ; cautiously avoiding and reprobating ...
... modern language , and effeminating the public taste . This was not a little forwarded by , what generally makes its appearance at the same time , a kind of feminine curiosity in the choice of words ; cautiously avoiding and reprobating ...
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... modern ones , as unpolite , " had so exhausted the strength and stores of our language , that , as I observed , it was high time for some mas- ter - hand to interpose and send us for supplies to our old poets ; which , there is the ...
... modern ones , as unpolite , " had so exhausted the strength and stores of our language , that , as I observed , it was high time for some mas- ter - hand to interpose and send us for supplies to our old poets ; which , there is the ...
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... modern . It may further be observed that the critics have not felt the force of the words exponi and narrari in this precept . They are admirably chosen to ex- press the two faults condemned : the first implying a kind of pomp and ...
... modern . It may further be observed that the critics have not felt the force of the words exponi and narrari in this precept . They are admirably chosen to ex- press the two faults condemned : the first implying a kind of pomp and ...
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Page 18 - Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. He, who supreme in judgment, as in wit, Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, Yet judg'd with coolness, tho' he sung with fire; His precepts teach but what his works inspire.
Page 293 - Dicitur Afrani toga convenisse Menandro ; Plautus ad exemplar Siculi properare Epicharmi ; Vincere Caecilius gravitate, Terentius arte. Hos ediscit, et hos arto stipata theatro Spectat Roma potens ; habet hos numeratque poetas Ad nostrum tempus, Livi scriptoris ab aevo.
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