The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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Page viii
... spirit . * Horace is by no means fo much an original in re- spect to his matter and fentiments ( which are rather too frequently borrowed ) as with regard to that unrival- led peculiarity of expreffion , which has excited the ad ...
... spirit . * Horace is by no means fo much an original in re- spect to his matter and fentiments ( which are rather too frequently borrowed ) as with regard to that unrival- led peculiarity of expreffion , which has excited the ad ...
Page ix
... spirit and mufic of Horace , has left us no remarkable inftance , to the best of my memory , of this kind . In truth this is a beauty , that occurs rather in the Odes , than the other parts of Horace's works ; where the aiming at ...
... spirit and mufic of Horace , has left us no remarkable inftance , to the best of my memory , of this kind . In truth this is a beauty , that occurs rather in the Odes , than the other parts of Horace's works ; where the aiming at ...
Page xiv
... spirit of atchievement is no more . Each folds his fordid arms across his breaft , Confidering for himself - which way is best To feize the hoarded talents as his prey Alone ; nor gives the very ruft away : And , if befought , he ...
... spirit of atchievement is no more . Each folds his fordid arms across his breaft , Confidering for himself - which way is best To feize the hoarded talents as his prey Alone ; nor gives the very ruft away : And , if befought , he ...
Page xvi
... Spirit of the Hyperborean blast , Which fwells the boiling wave - and rolls above the maft ! After all , to end this head as we began , there is a littleness in the nobleft poets among the Heathens when compared to the prodigious ...
... Spirit of the Hyperborean blast , Which fwells the boiling wave - and rolls above the maft ! After all , to end this head as we began , there is a littleness in the nobleft poets among the Heathens when compared to the prodigious ...
Page 40
... spirit than ufual , wine of four years old out of the Sabine jar . Submit the reft to the Gods , who having once compofed the winds battling with the boiling ocean , neither the cypruffes nor aged ashes are fhaken Shun to enquire what ...
... spirit than ufual , wine of four years old out of the Sabine jar . Submit the reft to the Gods , who having once compofed the winds battling with the boiling ocean , neither the cypruffes nor aged ashes are fhaken Shun to enquire what ...
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