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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: more uncommon Lights. If a Reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but very few Precepts in it, which he may not meet with in Ariftotle, and which were not commonly known by all the Poets of the Au- guftan Age. His Way of expreffing and applying them, not his Invention of them, is what we are chiefly to admire. FOR this Reafon I think there is nothing in the World fo tirefome as the Works of thofe Criticks who write in a pofitive Dogmatick Way, without either Language, Genius, or Imagination. If the Reader would fee how the beft of the Latin Criticks writ, he may find their Manner very beautifully defcribed in the Characters of Horace, Petronius, Quinti- Jian, and Longinus, as they are drawn in the Eflay of which I am now fpeaking. SINCE I have mentioned Longiws, who in his Reflexions has given us the fame kind of Sublime, which he obferves in the feveral paflages that occafioned them; I cannot but take notice, that our JLnglijh Author has after the fame manner exemplified feveral of his Precepts in the very Precepts themfelves. I mall produce two or three Inftances of this Kind. Speaking of the infipid Smoothnefs which fome Readers are fo much in Love with, he has the following Verfes. Thefe Equal Syllables alone require, 1 oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, Wbile Expletives their feeble Aid do join, And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line. THE gaping of the Vowels in the fecond Line, the Expletive do in the third, and the ten Monofyllables in the fourth, give fuch a Beauty to this PafTage, as would have been very much admired in an Ancient Poet. The Reader may obferve the following Lines in the fame View. A needlefs Alexandrine ends the Song, 3bat like a wounded Snake drags its Jlow Length along. And afterwards, Tis not enough no Harj...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217106702 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217106706 |
| Weight | 1.06 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 326 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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