Biographia Classica: The Lives and Characters of All the Classic Authors, the Grecian and Roman Poets, Historians, Orators, and Biographers. With an Historical and Critical Account of Them and Their Writings ...D. Browne, 1750 |
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Pàgina vii
... because he will fee the Ufe of it . And when there is Occafion , ' tis as much Conceit and Pedantry , fuperftitious- ly to avoid citing Greek or Latin , as it is to be pompous and profufe in thofe Citations when there is no Occafion ...
... because he will fee the Ufe of it . And when there is Occafion , ' tis as much Conceit and Pedantry , fuperftitious- ly to avoid citing Greek or Latin , as it is to be pompous and profufe in thofe Citations when there is no Occafion ...
Pàgina 6
... because he was born on the Banks of that River . Having nothing to maintain her , fhe was forced to fpin for her Living . THERE was at that time in Smyrna , a Man called Phemius , who taught Literature and Mu- fick . This Man having ...
... because he was born on the Banks of that River . Having nothing to maintain her , fhe was forced to fpin for her Living . THERE was at that time in Smyrna , a Man called Phemius , who taught Literature and Mu- fick . This Man having ...
Pàgina 9
... because he could not expound a filly Riddle , propofed to him by fome Fishermen ; but Herodotus , with good Reafon , contradicts that ridiculous Tradition . There are fome other scatter'd Stories about Homer ; he was fined , fays ...
... because he could not expound a filly Riddle , propofed to him by fome Fishermen ; but Herodotus , with good Reafon , contradicts that ridiculous Tradition . There are fome other scatter'd Stories about Homer ; he was fined , fays ...
Pàgina 24
... because there were fome Stories taken out of his Poems , or feveral of his Verfes engraven on them . Nero was paffionately fond of them , as Suetonius informs us . There would be no end of being particular upon this Subject . HOMER with ...
... because there were fome Stories taken out of his Poems , or feveral of his Verfes engraven on them . Nero was paffionately fond of them , as Suetonius informs us . There would be no end of being particular upon this Subject . HOMER with ...
Pàgina 27
... because he did not esteem ordinary Men ca- pable Readers of them . They would be apt to per- vert his Meaning , and have wrong Notions of God and Religion , by taking his bold and beautiful Alle- gories in a literal Senfe . Plato ...
... because he did not esteem ordinary Men ca- pable Readers of them . They would be apt to per- vert his Meaning , and have wrong Notions of God and Religion , by taking his bold and beautiful Alle- gories in a literal Senfe . Plato ...
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Pàgina 181 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each; it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Pàgina 14 - Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like.
Pàgina 45 - Tis neither love nor poesy Can arm, against death's smallest dart, The poet's head or lover's heart; But when their life, in its decline, Touches the' inevitable line, All the world's mortal to them then, And wine is aconite to men; Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
Pàgina 181 - No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty, and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we...
Pàgina 182 - ... all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer...
Pàgina 45 - The Odes of Anacreon," says Rapin, " are flowers, beauties, and perpetual graces : it is familiar to him to write what is natural; he has an air so delicate, easy, and graceful, that, among all the ancients, there is nothing comparable to the method he took, nor to that kind of writing he followed. He flows soft and easy, every whew diffusing the joy and indolence of his mind through all his compositions, and tuning his harp to the pleasant and happy temper of his soul.
Pàgina 251 - Nero himfelf was not only fond of it to the higheft degree, but, as moft bad poets are, 'was vain and conceited of his performances in that kind. He valued himfelf more upon his...
Pàgina 282 - I can bear; he fully satisfies my expectation; he treats his subject home; his spleen is raised, and he raises mine. I have the pleasure of concernment in all he says; he drives his reader along with him, and when he is at the end of his way, I willingly stop with him. If he went another stage, it would be too far; it would make a journey of a progress, and turn delight into fatigue.
Pàgina 193 - Scaliger says, only shows his white teeth, he cannot provoke me to any laughter. His urbanity, that is, his good manners, are to be commended, but his wit is faint; and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid.
Pàgina 1 - Mentes returning to Ithaca, found Homer cured. They embarked together, and after much time fpent in vifiting the Coafts...