Vergilius Redivivus: Studies in Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry, Volume 2In this volume, Estelle Haan, one of the world's finest neo-Latinists, makes an important contribution to the study of so often neglected poetry. She uses context & commentary to create an unprecedented understanding of Joseph Addison's poetry. Haan adds to the corpus of neo-Latin poetry, & also offers to non-Latinists with an interest in Addison access to products of his creative imagination that were hitherto unavailable because of the language barrier. The inclusion of material unkonwn to previous Addison editors considerably enhances the volume's value. Illustrations. |
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... frequently a quasi - ostentatious proof of learning . It was Latin poetry that would later come to head the Tatler and Spectator essays as though advertising the anticipated erudition of the magazines ' envisaged contemporary readership ...
... frequently a quasi - ostentatious proof of learning . It was Latin poetry that would later come to head the Tatler and Spectator essays as though advertising the anticipated erudition of the magazines ' envisaged contemporary readership ...
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... frequently mock - heroic tone characterizing , for example , the description of the moods and graces of a puny pygmy race 51 Macaulay , " The Life and Writings of Addison , " 741 : " Ne croyez pas pourtant que je veuille par là blâmer ...
... frequently mock - heroic tone characterizing , for example , the description of the moods and graces of a puny pygmy race 51 Macaulay , " The Life and Writings of Addison , " 741 : " Ne croyez pas pourtant que je veuille par là blâmer ...
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... frequently exuberant Virgilianism . 9960 9958 Oh could the Muse my ravish'd breast inspire With warmth like yours , and raise an equal fire , Unnumber'd beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy should yield to mine ! 59 ...
... frequently exuberant Virgilianism . 9960 9958 Oh could the Muse my ravish'd breast inspire With warmth like yours , and raise an equal fire , Unnumber'd beauties in my verse should shine , And Virgil's Italy should yield to mine ! 59 ...
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... frequently surprising echoes of Virgilian epic occur in Latin poems which are marked by their social , religious , political or military contexts . Thus the games of Aeneid 5 are reborn in a seventeenth - century bowling match ...
... frequently surprising echoes of Virgilian epic occur in Latin poems which are marked by their social , religious , political or military contexts . Thus the games of Aeneid 5 are reborn in a seventeenth - century bowling match ...
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... frequently verbal24 level : the searching for a missing goat , goats coming for milking twice a day , 26 the production of cheese , and the proclamation of the name " Daphnis " by the pastoral landscape.28 More importantly , it is the ...
... frequently verbal24 level : the searching for a missing goat , goats coming for milking twice a day , 26 the production of cheese , and the proclamation of the name " Daphnis " by the pastoral landscape.28 More importantly , it is the ...
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Page 62 - It began upon the following Occasion. It is allowed on all Hands, that the primitive Way of breaking Eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger End: But his present Majesty's Grand-father, while he was a Boy, going to eat 40 an Egg, and breaking it according to the ancient Practice, happened to cut one of his Fingers.
Page 33 - Nor must I here omit an experiment one of the company assured us he himself had made with this liquor, which he found in great quantity about the heart of a coquette whom he had formerly dissected. He affirmed to us, that he had actually...
Page 10 - He delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind of grandeur, he breaks the clods and tosses the dung about with an air of gracefulness.
Page 132 - The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star, That in a summer's evening from the top Of heaven drops down, or seems at least to drop ; Till on the Po his blasted corpse was hurl'd, Far from his country, in the western world.
Page 72 - It will be an honour to him to have it said he contended with me:' but I would have him to know, that I can look beyond his wires, and know very well the whole trick of his art; and that it is only by these wires that the eye of the spectator is cheated, and hindered from seeing that there is a thread on one of Punch's chops, which draws it up, and lets it fall at the discretion of the said Powel, who stands behind and plays him, and makes him speak saucily of his betters.
Page 62 - It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy ; but the books of the Bigendians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments. During the course of these troubles the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors...
Page 61 - He is taller, by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court ; which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.
Page 65 - Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 187 - Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry.
Page 76 - When we came to Noah's flood in the show, Punch and his wife were introduced dancing in the ark. An honest plain friend of Florimel's, but a critic withal, rose up in the midst of the representation, and made many very good exceptions to the drama itself, and told us, that it was against all morality, as well as rules of the stage, that Punch should be in jest in the deluge, or indeed that he should appear at all.