Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1748 - 411 pages |
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... Horace , he fays , 2 that thofe emendations 1 See his first note on Milton's Paradife loft . 2 Plura igitur in Horatianis his curis ex conjectura exhi- bemus , quàm ex codicum fubfidio ; et , nifi me omnia fallunt , plerumque certiora ...
... Horace , he fays , 2 that thofe emendations 1 See his first note on Milton's Paradife loft . 2 Plura igitur in Horatianis his curis ex conjectura exhi- bemus , quàm ex codicum fubfidio ; et , nifi me omnia fallunt , plerumque certiora ...
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... Horace ; which was , to admit into the context all thofe better readings , for which he had the authority of ancient manu- fcripts ; but as to meer conjectural corrections , to place them in his notes . His reply to this advice was , as ...
... Horace ; which was , to admit into the context all thofe better readings , for which he had the authority of ancient manu- fcripts ; but as to meer conjectural corrections , to place them in his notes . His reply to this advice was , as ...
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... Horace were not wedded to " follow the faults of former fathers , ( a fhrewd marriage " in greater matters ) but by right imitation of the perfect " Grecians , had brought poetry to perfectness also in the " Latin tongue ; that we ...
... Horace were not wedded to " follow the faults of former fathers , ( a fhrewd marriage " in greater matters ) but by right imitation of the perfect " Grecians , had brought poetry to perfectness also in the " Latin tongue ; that we ...
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... Horace writes to this purpose of coining new words , and of making current the old in his art of poetry , . 406 , & c . & c . And Ariftotle in his rhetoric III , 2. fays , that changing our common idiom for foreign . and borrowed terms ...
... Horace writes to this purpose of coining new words , and of making current the old in his art of poetry , . 406 , & c . & c . And Ariftotle in his rhetoric III , 2. fays , that changing our common idiom for foreign . and borrowed terms ...
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... Horace , Lib . III . Ode 4. Vifam Britannos hofpitibus feros . See Caefar's defcription of Britain ( if ' tis Caefar's , and not inferted by a later hand ) de bello Gallic . V , 12 . & c . Cicero ad Attic . Epift . IV , 16. Illud jam ...
... Horace , Lib . III . Ode 4. Vifam Britannos hofpitibus feros . See Caefar's defcription of Britain ( if ' tis Caefar's , and not inferted by a later hand ) de bello Gallic . V , 12 . & c . Cicero ad Attic . Epift . IV , 16. Illud jam ...
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