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" Received his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit, Who conquer'd nature, should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense : Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest... "
Englische Studien - Page 75
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Odes

Horace - 1853 - 422 pages
...Ele-. 10. HORACE still charms with graccrul ne^ligenct, Aiid without method talks us itito senso , Will , like a friend , familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. lie , vvho supreme in judgme t , as in wit , Might holdly censure , as he boldiy writ , •18 JUíZO...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 29

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1853 - 606 pages
...author's privilege it is to Charm with graceful negligence, And without method talk us into sense ; And, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. * Causeries du Lundi, par С. A. Sainte-Beuve, de l'Académie FrançaUe. Deuxième édition. Parie...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 97

1853 - 570 pages
...author's privilege it is to Charm with graceful negligence, And without method talk us into sense ; And, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. Literary portrait-painting has long been a favourite and flourishing art in France. A host of names...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...last dull dropping of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence." — I. 608, 9. " Eorace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense." — I. 653, 4. I have mentioned this the more for the sake of those critics who are bigotted idolisers...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...liberty, Received his laws ; and stood convinced 'twas fit, Who conquer'd Nature, should preside o'er Wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, Yet judged with coolness, though he sung with fire ; His precepts teach but what his works inspire. 660 Our critics...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With Memoir, Critical ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...Received his laws ; and stood convinced 'twas fit, V [IVho conquer'd Nature, should preside o'er Wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...Might boldly censure, as he boldly writ, Yet judged with coolness, though he sung with fire ; His precepts teach but what his works inspire. 660 Our critics...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...liberty, Received his laws, and stood convinced 'twas fit, Who conqured Nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...Might boldly censure as he boldly writ. Yet judged with coolness, though he sung with fire • His precepts teach but what his works inspire. Our critics...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 49

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 738 pages
...the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! ' HOHACK [GBBELBY] still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense.' LITERARY NOTICES PEU« AND I. By GEORGE WILLIAM CDBTIS. In one Tolume : pp. 321. New- York . Dix, EDWARDS...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...liberty, Receiv'd his laws, and stood convinc'd 'twas fit Who conquer'd nature should preside o'er wit. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And...like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions ill the easiest way. He who, supreme in judgment as in wit, Might boldly censure as he boldly writ,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...Blander most prevailed ; and it is now (pcrliapa the ; Moner for thli very verse) dead and forgotten. I we turn, still battle on ike plains, And give Achilles all that yet remains Of his and our with coolness, though he sung with fire; His precepts teach but what his works inspire. Our critics...
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