The Spectator, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1911 |
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Page 126
... Horace , Juvenal a Boileau , and the best Writers of every Age , that the t Follies of the Stage and Court had never been accounted too sacred for Ridicule , how great soever the Persons might be that patroniz'd them . But after all ...
... Horace , Juvenal a Boileau , and the best Writers of every Age , that the t Follies of the Stage and Court had never been accounted too sacred for Ridicule , how great soever the Persons might be that patroniz'd them . But after all ...
Page 145
... Horace , who copy'd most of his Criticisms after Aristotle , seems to have had his Eye on the foregoing Rule , in the following Verses : Et tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri Telephus & Peleus , cum pauper & exsul uterque ...
... Horace , who copy'd most of his Criticisms after Aristotle , seems to have had his Eye on the foregoing Rule , in the following Verses : Et tragicus plerumque dolet sermone pedestri Telephus & Peleus , cum pauper & exsul uterque ...
Page 165
... Horace afterwards established by a Rule , of forbearing to commit Parricides or unnatural Murthers before the ... Horace's Rule , who never designed to banish all Kinds of Death from the Stage ; but only such as had too much Horror in ...
... Horace afterwards established by a Rule , of forbearing to commit Parricides or unnatural Murthers before the ... Horace's Rule , who never designed to banish all Kinds of Death from the Stage ; but only such as had too much Horror in ...
Page 233
... Horace , but a great deal of it in Ovid , and scarce any thing else in Martial . Out of the innumerable Branches of mixt Wit , I shall chuse one Instance which may be met with in all the Writers of this Class . The Passion of Love in ...
... Horace , but a great deal of it in Ovid , and scarce any thing else in Martial . Out of the innumerable Branches of mixt Wit , I shall chuse one Instance which may be met with in all the Writers of this Class . The Passion of Love in ...
Page 258
... Horace and Epictetus . There are very beautiful Instances of this Nature in the following Passages , which are likewise written upon the same Subject : " Whoso discovereth Secrets loseth his Credit , and shall never find a Friend to his ...
... Horace and Epictetus . There are very beautiful Instances of this Nature in the following Passages , which are likewise written upon the same Subject : " Whoso discovereth Secrets loseth his Credit , and shall never find a Friend to his ...
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