The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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Page ix
... never fuppofed him to be fo wholly inimitable , that a man might not do him fome degree of juftice . In the first place I have especially attended to , what the critics call his curiofa felicitas , of which many of my predeceffors feem ...
... never fuppofed him to be fo wholly inimitable , that a man might not do him fome degree of juftice . In the first place I have especially attended to , what the critics call his curiofa felicitas , of which many of my predeceffors feem ...
Page xiii
... 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 patronage , and the idea of ...
... 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 patronage , and the idea of ...
Page xxii
... never to be fet at a distance , but when a writer is fummoned to fuch a task by real miracles and divine tranfcendency . When a new work is made , published , and is uncommonly success- ful in its propagation and applause amongst the ...
... never to be fet at a distance , but when a writer is fummoned to fuch a task by real miracles and divine tranfcendency . When a new work is made , published , and is uncommonly success- ful in its propagation and applause amongst the ...
Page 4
... never tempt , with all that Attalus was worth , to become an anxious failor , and plow the Myrtoan fea in a Cyprian veffel . The merchant , fearful of the fouth - weft , contending with the Icarian waves , extols leifure , and the ...
... never tempt , with all that Attalus was worth , to become an anxious failor , and plow the Myrtoan fea in a Cyprian veffel . The merchant , fearful of the fouth - weft , contending with the Icarian waves , extols leifure , and the ...
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... never from his course be prefs'd , For all that Attalus poffefs'd , To plow , with failor's anxious pain , In Cyprian floop th ' Egean main . The merchant , dreading the fouth - weft , Whofe blafts th ' Icarian wave moleft , Praises his ...
... never from his course be prefs'd , For all that Attalus poffefs'd , To plow , with failor's anxious pain , In Cyprian floop th ' Egean main . The merchant , dreading the fouth - weft , Whofe blafts th ' Icarian wave moleft , Praises his ...
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