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Dissertations On The Polite Arts.
these images , to instruct ¦ : but he has put instruction in them fo please , ' Virgil is certainly a greater Poet than Horace . His paintings are more rich and beautiful . His versification is admirable . Horace however is much more read . The principal reason is , that he has at this time the merit of being more instructive to us than Virgil , who perhaps was more so to the Romans . We do not say that Poetry should never give itself up io an agreeable
mirth . The Muses are cheerful , and were always friends to the Graces . But little Poems are rather sports and relaxations to them , than works . They owe other services to mankind , whose life ought not to be one perpetual amusement ; and the example of nature , which they propose for a model , teaches them to do nothing considerable without a wise design , and which may tend to the
perfection of those for whom they labour . THE STYLE OF POETRY ; THE style of Poetry contains four parts : viz . Thoughts , Words , Turns , and Harmony , All these are found in Prose itself ; but as in ; the Polite Arts it is necessary not only to paint nature , biit to paint it with all its agreeableness and beauty ; Poetryto arrive- " at thai end '
, , has a rig ht to add a degree of perfection to those charms which may exalt them above their natural condition . It is for this reason that the thoughts , words , and turns in Poetry , have a boldness , liberty and richness which would appear excessive ; in common language . Plence , well-sustained similes , glittering sie- ' - - tapbors , lively repetitions , surprizing apostrophes . Thus
— = Morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing , sow'd the earth with orient pearl . Again ; _ , __ . . _ now gentle gales , ; Fanning their odoriferous wings , dispense , Native perfumes , and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils .
Or : " How from that saphire fount the crisped brooks Rowling on orient pearl and sands of gold . With maiy error under pendent shades . Ran nectar .- — -Slow : .
—Hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull night .-We shall say no more of these three parts , viz . the thoughts , words , ¦ arid turns of Poetry ; because we may form a very just idea of them by the bare reading of good Poets : but it is not so of the fourth , which is harmony .
Non quivis yidet immodulato poemata judex . There are three sorts of Harmony in Poetry : the first is that , of the Style , which ought always to agree with the subject treated of . The Polite Arts form a kind of commonwealth , where every one nsaJces
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Dissertations On The Polite Arts.
these images , to instruct ¦ : but he has put instruction in them fo please , ' Virgil is certainly a greater Poet than Horace . His paintings are more rich and beautiful . His versification is admirable . Horace however is much more read . The principal reason is , that he has at this time the merit of being more instructive to us than Virgil , who perhaps was more so to the Romans . We do not say that Poetry should never give itself up io an agreeable
mirth . The Muses are cheerful , and were always friends to the Graces . But little Poems are rather sports and relaxations to them , than works . They owe other services to mankind , whose life ought not to be one perpetual amusement ; and the example of nature , which they propose for a model , teaches them to do nothing considerable without a wise design , and which may tend to the
perfection of those for whom they labour . THE STYLE OF POETRY ; THE style of Poetry contains four parts : viz . Thoughts , Words , Turns , and Harmony , All these are found in Prose itself ; but as in ; the Polite Arts it is necessary not only to paint nature , biit to paint it with all its agreeableness and beauty ; Poetryto arrive- " at thai end '
, , has a rig ht to add a degree of perfection to those charms which may exalt them above their natural condition . It is for this reason that the thoughts , words , and turns in Poetry , have a boldness , liberty and richness which would appear excessive ; in common language . Plence , well-sustained similes , glittering sie- ' - - tapbors , lively repetitions , surprizing apostrophes . Thus
— = Morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing , sow'd the earth with orient pearl . Again ; _ , __ . . _ now gentle gales , ; Fanning their odoriferous wings , dispense , Native perfumes , and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils .
Or : " How from that saphire fount the crisped brooks Rowling on orient pearl and sands of gold . With maiy error under pendent shades . Ran nectar .- — -Slow : .
—Hear the lark begin his flight , And singing startle the dull night .-We shall say no more of these three parts , viz . the thoughts , words , ¦ arid turns of Poetry ; because we may form a very just idea of them by the bare reading of good Poets : but it is not so of the fourth , which is harmony .
Non quivis yidet immodulato poemata judex . There are three sorts of Harmony in Poetry : the first is that , of the Style , which ought always to agree with the subject treated of . The Polite Arts form a kind of commonwealth , where every one nsaJces