The Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets: Containing the Works of George Stepney, William Walsh, Thomas Tickell, Never Before Collected and Publish'd Together
The Works of the Most Celebrated Minor Poets: Containing the Works of George Stepney, William Walsh, Thomas Tickell, Never Before Collected and Publish'd Together
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1749 Excerpt: ...Sublimes, those he thinks the most sublime; or sublimis, which he makes looking up to heaven, as if he would from thence fetch his enthusiasm: Wherefore it has also been read sublimis, with reference to the poet. Sublimit, MsTivsv, Who goes looking up to heaven; but sublimes versus seems to me to be better. Horace ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1749 Excerpt: ...Sublimes, those he thinks the most sublime; or sublimis, which he makes looking up to heaven, as if he would from thence fetch his enthusiasm: Wherefore it has also been read sublimis, with reference to the poet. Sublimit, MsTivsv, Who goes looking up to heaven; but sublimes versus seems to me to be better. Horace diverts himself with describing the phrenzy of a poet, whom slatterers have made mad. 458. Ruelatur. He vomits them; the sophist Aristides faid ta I 4 a- in emperor," We are not some of thofe who vomit up their writings, but thofe who make them." 4-9. Succurrite, hngum clamat. By this Ionium claenat, Horace' thews the custom of those cripples that begged on the high-wayi, . pronouncing the word fecuritate, but drawling it out so, that they made it last half-an-hour: Our beggars, understand this way perfectly well. Ltmgum has been interpreted from a-far, very loud j but I take it to be a long while. -, .. 460. Slui feis an prudens hue fe dejecerit There's no folly of which an ill poet is not capable. _ 461. Siculiqui Poeta narrabo interitum. The death of Empedocltt, 'at Ajrigentum, Gergenri, a Town in S.cily. 462. Dumcupit Eapedocles ardentem frigidus AEenam itistfoit.Jimpedocles, a great philosophical poet, who wrote three books of the nature of things quoted by Aristotle: He also wrote on Xerxes's expedition; but his daughter or sitter burnt that piece: He flourished about 450 years before Christ. Lucretius has a sine encomium on him, in his 1st books jVJZ tamei! hot hdbuijse viro prtclarms in fe Nec sandltem roagis &c. The story of his flinging himself into mount AEtna, is only grounded on one of Empedocles's shoes, found near a gap of that mountain; and 'twas faid the fiery vortexes whirled him into it. Timaeu
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