 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...morality, or any art or fcience, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have litttle elfe leí: us, but to reprefent the; common fenfe of mankind...few precepts in it which he may not " meet with in Ariftotle, and which were not " commonly known by all the poets of the Auguf" tan age. His way of exprcffing,... | |
 | English poetry - 1796 - 500 pages
...little else left us but to represent the common " sense of mankind in more strong, mere bcau" tiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader " examines Horace's...few precepts in it which, he may not meet " with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly " known by all the poets of the Augustan age. " His way of expressing... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...little else left us but to represent the common " sense of mankind in more strong, more beau" tiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader " examines Horace's...will find '' but few precepts in it which he may not mee£ " with in ArUtutle, and which were not commonly " known by all the poets of the Augustan ag.',... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...mankind in more ftrong, more beauti" ful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader exa" mines Horace's Alt of Poetry, he will find but few " precepts in it which he may not meet with in Arif" totle, and which were not commonly known by all " the poets of the Augulhui age. His way of expref"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 236 pages
...have not been touched upon by others ; we hav^ litle elie left us but to reprefent the common fen(e of mankind in more ftrong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reaf> der examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will fir4 * Spcfi°tor, No, z;i. " but few precepts in... | |
 | English literature - 1802 - 558 pages
...inadvertency, or ignorance, are not at all, or but very gently, to be taken notice of. Locke on Educatim. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but very few precepts in it, which he may not meet with in Añilóle. Addifin. SpeSator. Prepar'd I ftand... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader...examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but very few precepts in it, which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 230 pages
...sense of mankind in more strong, more bcauti" ful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader exa" mines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but few• " precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aris" totle, and which were not commonly known by all * the poets of the Augustan age. His way of express*... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...by others. We have little else left us, but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader...examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but very few precepts in it, which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...play, inadvertency, or ignorance, are not at all, or eut »try gently, to be taken notice of. Lochi. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but very few precepts in it, which he may not meet with in Aristotle. Addison. Prepaid I stand: he was... | |
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... or science, which have not been touched upon by others ; we have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights. If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry... 
