 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...the Poetics more than two thousand years ago, and they have not varied since. For, as Pope says, — These rules of old, discovered not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized. The subject of the epic poem must be some one, great, complex action. The principal personages must... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1875 - 372 pages
...posset video ingenium. Alteriua sic Alters poscit opera res et conjurat amice. HORAT., Ep. ad Pi»on. These rules, of old discovered, not devised, Are Nature still, but Nature methodized. POPE, Essay on Cril. § 13. The knowledge of the nature and principles of the art of rhetoric is attained... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. II. Those rules of old, discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized; Nature, like liberty, is but restrained By the same laws which first herself ordained. IE. Be Homer's... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Those rules of old, discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized : Nature, like liberty, is but restrain'd 90 By the same laws which first herself ordain'd. Hear how... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 pages
...THE LAWS OF EFFECTIVE DISCOUIl.SK BT DAVID J. HILL, PROFESSOR IK THK CMITEB8ITT AT I.Ev;;«s>. IW 14 These rules, of old discovered, not devised. Are Nature still, but Nature methodized.** Port. SHELDON & COMPANY, COPYRIGHT. ; i; Si i . I > o N & 1877. THIS book is not designed as an introduction... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1883 - 624 pages
...well. His maxims are trite, but they are indisputably true. It was his to recognize that — ' Those rules of old discovered, not devised Are nature still, but nature methodized.' It was his to place upon their proper pedestal those classical models from which we must, perforce, draw... | |
 | 1883 - 398 pages
...Oculum non curabit sine toto caput, Nee eaput sine toto coi-pore, Nee totum corpus sine anima."* " Those rules of old discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized." ULCERATION OF CORNEA CURED BY LAC FELINUM. EW BERRIDGE, MD, LONDON. In the HOMCEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN for... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1888 - 666 pages
...Lost'; Minor Epic Poems. two thousand years ago, and they have not varied since. For, as Pope says, — These rules of old, discovered not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodised. The subject of the epic poem must be some one, great, complex action. The principal personages... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...endeavoured to imitate in the ancient writers was not their mere external style but their method : " Those rules, of old discovered, not devised, Are Nature still, but Nature methodized," He regarded the classical authors as his masters in the art of thinking, and in this respect he is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 pages
...The winged courser, like a gen'rous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. Those rules of old discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized ; Nature, like liberty, is but restrained 90 By the same laws which first herself ordained. Hear how... | |
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Those rules of old discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized; Nature, like liberty, is but restrained 90 By the same laws which first herself ordained. 
