The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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Page vii
... Romans , may be well enough rendered by literary men , who are merely intelligent and judicious : but the redundant elegance of Tully , the concife po- liteness of Phædrus , the ingenuous manliness of Livy , the music and painting of ...
... Romans , may be well enough rendered by literary men , who are merely intelligent and judicious : but the redundant elegance of Tully , the concife po- liteness of Phædrus , the ingenuous manliness of Livy , the music and painting of ...
Page x
... pleasing , to escape the aprobation of all ranks and degrees . The Secular - Ode , that brightest monument of the Heathen Pfalmift and Roman worship , I have laboured with all - the the art and addrefs I am capable of . -As X PREFACE.
... pleasing , to escape the aprobation of all ranks and degrees . The Secular - Ode , that brightest monument of the Heathen Pfalmift and Roman worship , I have laboured with all - the the art and addrefs I am capable of . -As X PREFACE.
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... Roman and excel ! I make no doubt but Sir John Denham whetted his imagination by the above lines of Dionyfius , before he made those famous verfes upon the Thames . * But the finest lines of all heathen antiquity for most glorious ...
... Roman and excel ! I make no doubt but Sir John Denham whetted his imagination by the above lines of Dionyfius , before he made those famous verfes upon the Thames . * But the finest lines of all heathen antiquity for most glorious ...
Page xix
... Roman ear . " If life or joy I hold or give , By thee I please , by thee I live . What an air of dignity on thefe : Paulum fepultæ diftat inertia Celata virtus . Non ego te meis Chartis inornatum filebo Totve tuos patiar labores Impune ...
... Roman ear . " If life or joy I hold or give , By thee I please , by thee I live . What an air of dignity on thefe : Paulum fepultæ diftat inertia Celata virtus . Non ego te meis Chartis inornatum filebo Totve tuos patiar labores Impune ...
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... INTERPRETATIO N. the earth . This man , if the mob of the fickle Romans vie to elevate to the threefold dignities ; another , if he have ftowed B 2 up Illum , fi proprio condidit horreo Quicquid de Lybicis verritur THE ...
... INTERPRETATIO N. the earth . This man , if the mob of the fickle Romans vie to elevate to the threefold dignities ; another , if he have ftowed B 2 up Illum , fi proprio condidit horreo Quicquid de Lybicis verritur THE ...
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