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... less harmonious and dignified than the Greek , it is generally more concise , and sometimes more for- cible . By many indeed , its inferiority is only ac knowledged for the purposes of poetry , in which it wants the various cadence of ...
... less harmonious and dignified than the Greek , it is generally more concise , and sometimes more for- cible . By many indeed , its inferiority is only ac knowledged for the purposes of poetry , in which it wants the various cadence of ...
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... less spirited , were written ( when circumstances of time , places , and persons were strong upon him ) in the first heat of imagina tion , and afterwards corrected , through a length of years , in the coolness of judgment . In others ...
... less spirited , were written ( when circumstances of time , places , and persons were strong upon him ) in the first heat of imagina tion , and afterwards corrected , through a length of years , in the coolness of judgment . In others ...
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... this advantage over the rigid satirist , that we receive him into our bosoms , while he reasons with good humor and corrects in the language of friendship . Nor will his satires be less useful to the present age PREFACE .
... this advantage over the rigid satirist , that we receive him into our bosoms , while he reasons with good humor and corrects in the language of friendship . Nor will his satires be less useful to the present age PREFACE .
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... less entertaining , than useful . Let him be permitted to hope , that the notes , in general , must be really valuable , if they have been chosen with judgment in any degree proportioned to the labor of collecting them . Some original ...
... less entertaining , than useful . Let him be permitted to hope , that the notes , in general , must be really valuable , if they have been chosen with judgment in any degree proportioned to the labor of collecting them . Some original ...
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... less daring spirit could have attempted . To Mr. Cunningham we are indebted for many valuable instances of saga . city , yet with a criticism so severe , as if it were intended rather to correct Doctor Bentley than Horace . Where they ...
... less daring spirit could have attempted . To Mr. Cunningham we are indebted for many valuable instances of saga . city , yet with a criticism so severe , as if it were intended rather to correct Doctor Bentley than Horace . Where they ...
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Aristippus arms Augustus Bacchus bard behold bend beneath blest bold brave breast Cæsar charms cheerful cries crowd crown'd DAMASIPPUS dame dare delight dire dread earth ease EPISTLE EPODE fair faithless fame fate fear feast festal fierce fire flame flowing folly fond form'd fortune frugal genius give glows gods gold Grecian happy hath head hear heart honors HORACE hour impious indulgence inspire Jove Latian light lyre madness Mæcenas maid Medes Muse ne'er numbers o'er Parthian passion plain pleasure poet poet's possest powers divine praise pride Pyrrha rage raise reign rich rise Roman Rome sacred SATIRE SATIRE III SATIRE VI Scythians seas shine sing sire skies slave song soul STERTINIUS strain taste tear Telephus thee thine thou Thracian thro Tiber TIRESIAS Tityos toil tygress verse vile Virgil VIRGINS virtue wanton waves wealth winds wine wise wretch yield youth
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450 ページ - A youth who hopes th' Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain ; Th' extremes of heat and cold must often prove. And shun the weakening joys of wine and love.
277 ページ - From grave to jovial you must change with art, Now play the critic's, now the poet's part; In raillery assume a gayer air, Discreetly hide your strength, your vigour spare; For ridicule shall frequently prevail, And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
300 ページ - Yet if he drink mere vinegar for wine; If, at fourscore, of straw he made his bed, While moths upon his rotting carpets fed; By few, forsooth, a madman he is thought, For half mankind the same disease have ca'ught.
353 ページ - ... the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the...
452 ページ - Nor say, for trifles why should I displease The man I love? For trifles such as these To serious mischiefs lead the man I love, If once the flatterer's ridicule he prove.
274 ページ - I'll bribe his servants to my side; To-day shut out, still onward press, And watch the seasons of access; In private haunt, in public meet, Salute, escort him through the street. There's nothing gotten in this life, Without a world of toil and strife!
72 ページ - The man within the golden mean Who can his boldest wish contain, Securely views the ruin'd cell, Where sordid want and sorrow dwell; And in himself serenely great, Declines an envied room of state.
170 ページ - Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave: In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own.
410 ページ - I feel my honest indignation rise, When with affected air a coxcomb cries, The work I own has elegance and ease, But sure no modern should pretend to please.
357 ページ - AMONG the innumerable practices by which interest or envy have taught those who live upon literary fame to disturb each other at their airy banquets, one of the most common is the charge of plagiarism. When the excellence of a new composition can no longer be contested, and malice...