 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...hand ; Still fit for ulc, and ready at command. Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine infpire, And blcfs their Critic with a Poet's fire. An ardent Judge, who, zealous in his truft, With warmth gives fcntencc, yet is always juft : ЛV'hofc own example drengthcns all his laws... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...hand ; Still fit for ufe, and ready at command. Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine infpire, And bh-fs Proud a* a lover of his chains, He day by day her favour gains. truft, With warmth gives fentcnce, yet is always juft: Whofe own example ftrengthens all his laws;... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...hand, Still fit for ofe, and ready at command. Thee, bold Longinu« ! all the Nine infpire. And biefs their critic with a poet's fire. An ardent judge, who, zealous in hi« truft, < With warmth gives fcntence, yet i» alwsrs jufl ; Whofe own example (trengthens all his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...Still fit for ufe, and ready at command. Thee, bold Longinus 1 all the Nine infpire, 675 And blefs their Critic with a Poet's fire. An ardent Judge, who, zealous in his truft, With warmth gives fentence, yet is always juft : Whofe own example ftrengthens all his laws... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...critic with a poei's im- , An ardent judge, who, zealuus in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, and is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all...his laws, And is himself the great Sublime he draws. M. POPE. THE FIFTH EDITION, cORREcTED AND IMPROVED LONDON: FEINTED BY C. WH1TTINCHAM, Dtan Strut, Fttttr... | |
 | Books - 1800 - 574 pages
...characterised him as •• An ardent judge, who, zealous to his trust, With warmth gives sentence, and is always just ; Whose own example strengthens all his laws, And is himself the great sublims he draws." An excellent English translation of Longinus was published in 17^9, by Dr. Smith,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...the hand, Still fit for use, and ready at command. Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, 675 And bless their critic with a poet's fire : An ardent...his laws, And is himself the great sublime he draws. 680 Thus long succeeding critics justly reign'd, License repress'd, and useful laws ordain'd : Learning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...have been always bred up to. S t II Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, And bless your clitick with a poet's fire : An ardent judge, who, zealous...gives sentence, yet is always just ; Whose own example itrmgtbtm all his laws, And is himself that great sublime he draws. Pope. If it were true th« women... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...were found, would be an entertaining work to persons of literary curiosity. 43. Thee, .* Ver. 669. 43. Thee, bold LONGINUS, all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire.* This abrupt address to Longinus is more spirited and striking, and more suitable to the character of... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...Longinus, off the roll; of the latter of whom, though he was no poet, Mr. Pope finely says, Thee, great Longinus, all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire. But with respect to so great a hainc as that of Quintilian, this rule appears to me much too rigid.... | |
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Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime... 
