The works of Horace, Volume 1W. Flexney, Mess. Johnson, and T. Caslon, 1767 |
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Page xiv
... ” It is impoffible to keep citing fuch paffages as these without delighting one's felf ; the reader therefore will the rather indulge me fuch a refreshment , as my inten- tion tion is in fome measure to form and direct the xiv PREFACE .
... ” It is impoffible to keep citing fuch paffages as these without delighting one's felf ; the reader therefore will the rather indulge me fuch a refreshment , as my inten- tion tion is in fome measure to form and direct the xiv PREFACE .
Page xvii
... the wrinkled age forefend , Nor for an hour retard th ' inevitable end ! What fire and vivacity on these lines : Quo me , Bacche , rapis , tui b Plenum ? Plenum ? quæ nemora & quos agor in fpecus Velox PREFACE . xvii.
... the wrinkled age forefend , Nor for an hour retard th ' inevitable end ! What fire and vivacity on these lines : Quo me , Bacche , rapis , tui b Plenum ? Plenum ? quæ nemora & quos agor in fpecus Velox PREFACE . xvii.
Page xviii
... these : Monte decurrens , velut amnis , imbres Quem fuper notas aluere ripas , Fervet , immenfufque ruit profundo Pindarus ore . Cascading from the mountain's height , As falls the river swol❜n with fhow'rs , Deep , fierce , and out of ...
... these : Monte decurrens , velut amnis , imbres Quem fuper notas aluere ripas , Fervet , immenfufque ruit profundo Pindarus ore . Cascading from the mountain's height , As falls the river swol❜n with fhow'rs , Deep , fierce , and out of ...
Page xxiii
... These lines are in open contempt of Ovid , who has done all these extravagances to a tittle , in his fifth Book of the Metamorphofes . As for example : b 4 Vobis Vobis , Acheloides , unde Pluma pedefque avium cum virginis PREFACE . xxiii.
... These lines are in open contempt of Ovid , who has done all these extravagances to a tittle , in his fifth Book of the Metamorphofes . As for example : b 4 Vobis Vobis , Acheloides , unde Pluma pedefque avium cum virginis PREFACE . xxiii.
Page xxvi
... these verses : As when the fane and facred wood of Dian , & c . alludes to the following lines in the VII . book of the Metamorphofes ; Ibat ad antiquas Hecates Perfeidos aras Quas nemus umbrofum , fecretaque fylva tegebant . She now ...
... these verses : As when the fane and facred wood of Dian , & c . alludes to the following lines in the VII . book of the Metamorphofes ; Ibat ad antiquas Hecates Perfeidos aras Quas nemus umbrofum , fecretaque fylva tegebant . She now ...
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