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. 1908 Excerpt: ...as of a nearer relation, and going more naturally together; the Commentators being certainly mistaken, who would have a Metonymie in this place. The third Verse I can scarce believe legitimate: the words speak nothing but motion, and the numbers are so ratling 35 that nothing can be more repugnant to the general repose ...
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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. 1908 Excerpt: ...as of a nearer relation, and going more naturally together; the Commentators being certainly mistaken, who would have a Metonymie in this place. The third Verse I can scarce believe legitimate: the words speak nothing but motion, and the numbers are so ratling 35 that nothing can be more repugnant to the general repose and silence which the Poet describes; or, if any Copies might favour the conjecture, I should rather read, cum medio librantur sydera cursu. For nothing can be more Poetical, than to suppose the Stars rest (as it were poiz'd) in their Meridian; and this 5 would not only express it to be Midnight, but heighten the Poets design, which by the common reading is absolutely destroy'd. The fifth line seems to bear a doubtful face, and looks not unlike something of equivocation: an ordinary Grammarian would seek no further than the 10 antecedent, volucres, to refer these relatives to; and might construe Wild ducks and Woodcocks, what the Poet intended for Fish in the Sea and the wild Beasts of the Forest. Besides this, I find none amongst the Latins that deserves 15 to be brought into comparison. In the Italian, Ariosto (whose every description is said to be a master-piece) in this is not over-fortunate; he is easie and smooth, but produces nothing of his own invention. He only enlarges on a thought of Virgils, which yet he leaves without that 20 turn which might give it perfection. What, I think, is more considerable is this of Tasso: Era la notte all'hor, ch' alto riposo Han l' onde e i venti, e parea muto il mondo: Gli animai lassi, e quel, che V mar ondoso, 25 O de' liquidi laghi alberga il fondo, E chi si giace in tana, o in mandra ascoso, E i pinti augelli ne F oblio profondo, Sotto il silentio de' secreti horrori, Sopian gli affanni, e raddolc...
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Add this copy of Critical Ssays of the Seventeenth Century Vol. II 1650 to cart. $56.43, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
