The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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Page viii
... 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- miration of all fucceeding ages ...
... 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- miration of all fucceeding ages ...
Page x
... mean literary atchievement for a fingle man , who was very far from having such fuperlative advantages . The Epodes of Horace are exceedingly beneath his other works , but have always fome local or perfonal propriety difcernible even at ...
... mean literary atchievement for a fingle man , who was very far from having such fuperlative advantages . The Epodes of Horace are exceedingly beneath his other works , but have always fome local or perfonal propriety difcernible even at ...
Page xii
... mean the beauty , forcé and vehemence of Impreffion which leads me to a rare and entertaining subject , not ( I think ) any where much infifted on by others . Impreffion then , is a talent or gift of Almighty God , by which a Genius is ...
... mean the beauty , forcé and vehemence of Impreffion which leads me to a rare and entertaining subject , not ( I think ) any where much infifted on by others . Impreffion then , is a talent or gift of Almighty God , by which a Genius is ...
Page xiii
... mean tranfition ) is never the lefs more home to our prefent purpose . Adfis , O Cytherea , tuus te , Cæfar , Olympo , Et Surrentini littoris ora vocat ! Behold , Virgil , upon the fea - coaft with the grateful re- membrance of ...
... mean tranfition ) is never the lefs more home to our prefent purpose . Adfis , O Cytherea , tuus te , Cæfar , Olympo , Et Surrentini littoris ora vocat ! Behold , Virgil , upon the fea - coaft with the grateful re- membrance of ...
Page xxv
... means the whole chain of Rhapsodies , from one end of the book to the other.- -But to go on- As when the fane and facred wood Of Dian , or meandring flood In In pleasant fields or copious flow Of Rhine , or PREFACE . XXV.
... means the whole chain of Rhapsodies , from one end of the book to the other.- -But to go on- As when the fane and facred wood Of Dian , or meandring flood In In pleasant fields or copious flow Of Rhine , or PREFACE . XXV.
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