English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth CenturyThis book discusses Imitations of the ancient Roman verse satirists Horace, Juvenal, and Perseus published in Britain in the first half of the eighteenth century. It endeavors to put major writers such as Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson in the context of lesser writers of the period. It also devotes attention to other canonical writers such as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, and Christopher Smart. |
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... Moral Materials very suitable , I am sure , to your present Misfortunes . I could heartily have wish'd , you had no Occa- sion for the least of them : And to Convince you , that the Subject was not enter'd upon as a matter Pleasant in ...
... Moral Materials very suitable , I am sure , to your present Misfortunes . I could heartily have wish'd , you had no Occa- sion for the least of them : And to Convince you , that the Subject was not enter'd upon as a matter Pleasant in ...
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... morality into the saturnalia of a character like Toland's . Here as in the Letter of Thanks it must have thrilled the harsh censor to find himself operating in the free , uncontrolled , irresponsible personal- ity of a man he detested ...
... morality into the saturnalia of a character like Toland's . Here as in the Letter of Thanks it must have thrilled the harsh censor to find himself operating in the free , uncontrolled , irresponsible personal- ity of a man he detested ...
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... moral that peaceful obscurity is preferable to the excitements of greatness . Here the situation is reversed . According to Horace , Philippus , the famous lawyer , was making his way home from the Forum at the eighth hour ( which would ...
... moral that peaceful obscurity is preferable to the excitements of greatness . Here the situation is reversed . According to Horace , Philippus , the famous lawyer , was making his way home from the Forum at the eighth hour ( which would ...
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... moral as a general axiom— Qui semel aspexit quantum dimissa petitis praestent , mature redeat repetatque relicta . metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est . [ 96-98 ] ( Once one has looked back at how much what has been left ...
... moral as a general axiom— Qui semel aspexit quantum dimissa petitis praestent , mature redeat repetatque relicta . metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est . [ 96-98 ] ( Once one has looked back at how much what has been left ...
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... moral , that each of us should recognize our own limitations , with the implied message to Maecenas that Horace sought no higher station in the social and political world — an attitude that no one is likely to predicate to the ...
... moral , that each of us should recognize our own limitations , with the implied message to Maecenas that Horace sought no higher station in the social and political world — an attitude that no one is likely to predicate to the ...
Contents
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Imitators Imitating Swift Imitating Horace | 53 |
Alexander Popes Earlier Imitations of Horace | 64 |
Responses to Popes Earlier Imitations | 85 |
Pope and Horace The Later Period | 102 |
Imitations of Roman Satire in the Later 1730s | 136 |
The Imitation from 1740 to 1750 | 169 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Appendix | 223 |
Notes | 228 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Index | 265 |
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English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century William Kupersmith No preview available - 2007 |
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Page 42 - Hoc erat in votis : modus agri non ita magnus, hortus ubi et tecto vicinus iugis aquae fons et paulum silvae super his foret. auctius atque di melius fecere. bene est. nil amplius oro, Maia nate, nisi ut propria haec mihi munera faxis-.
Page 86 - What ? arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash the proud gamester in his gilded car, Bare the mean heart that lurks beneath a star ; Can there be wanting, to defend her cause, Lights of the church, or guardians of the laws ? Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain Flatterers and bigots e'en in Louis...
Page 48 - it,' says the doctor, ' if the courtiers give me a watch that won't go ' right ?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which ' he must have them all ' subscribe;' 'for,' says he, 'the author shall not ' begin to print till 1 have a thousand guineas for
Page 70 - Lucili ritu, nostrum melioris utroque. ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim 30 credebat libris, neque si male cesserat usquam decurrens alio, neque si bene : quo fit, ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis.
Page 151 - The cheated nation's happy fav'rites, see! Mark whom the great caress, who frown on me! LONDON! the needy villain's gen'ral home, The common shore of Paris and of Rome; With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
Page 113 - For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, And grew immortal in his own despite.