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... Horace , published after the turn of the quarter - century , we learn that " Most Readers like Romantick Flights alone , And scorn a Poem where Design is shewn . " Such quotations might be multiplied indefinitely . More- over , the ...
... Horace , published after the turn of the quarter - century , we learn that " Most Readers like Romantick Flights alone , And scorn a Poem where Design is shewn . " Such quotations might be multiplied indefinitely . More- over , the ...
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... Horace , Why is he honour'd with a Poet's Name , Who neither knows , nor wou'd observe a Rule . Rosc . and would fain obtrude on the World , the incoherent Libertinisms of their own crude Fancies , for Poetry ; so would this Author ...
... Horace , Why is he honour'd with a Poet's Name , Who neither knows , nor wou'd observe a Rule . Rosc . and would fain obtrude on the World , the incoherent Libertinisms of their own crude Fancies , for Poetry ; so would this Author ...
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... Horace , near the end of his Art of Poetry , seems long since to have decided this Question with great Clearness and Brevity . Some think that Poets may be form'd by Art . Others maintain , that Nature makes them so : I neither see what ...
... Horace , near the end of his Art of Poetry , seems long since to have decided this Question with great Clearness and Brevity . Some think that Poets may be form'd by Art . Others maintain , that Nature makes them so : I neither see what ...
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Willard Higley Durham. This is the Opinion of Horace confirm'd by Reason and Experience . For without Art , there can be no Order , and without Order , Harmony is sought in vain , where nothing but shocking Confusion can be found . Those ...
Willard Higley Durham. This is the Opinion of Horace confirm'd by Reason and Experience . For without Art , there can be no Order , and without Order , Harmony is sought in vain , where nothing but shocking Confusion can be found . Those ...
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... Horace remark'd above 1700 Years ago something like it in his Epistle to Augustus Cæsar . A Pilot only will a Vessel guide , And a Physician Medicines prescribe : And skilful Hands alone the Chizel use , But learned , and unlearned ...
... Horace remark'd above 1700 Years ago something like it in his Epistle to Augustus Cæsar . A Pilot only will a Vessel guide , And a Physician Medicines prescribe : And skilful Hands alone the Chizel use , But learned , and unlearned ...
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Page 174 - Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels, for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in heaven, On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end.
Page 179 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome ; That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 174 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 169 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 173 - Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Page 225 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 175 - Join voices, all ye living souls : ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread or lowly creep; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels...
Page 173 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 157 - And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 175 - Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark ! So pray'd they innocent, and to their thoughts .Firm peace recover'd soon, and wonted calm.