This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... whose real merit falls short of their echoed character. He is sometimes bombastic, and sometimes prosaic1'. 'There is no appearance of art in Demosthenes: in Cicero a great deal too much'2. He delights in Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer3. In preparing his own work on Aristotle's Ars Poetica, he writes ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... whose real merit falls short of their echoed character. He is sometimes bombastic, and sometimes prosaic1'. 'There is no appearance of art in Demosthenes: in Cicero a great deal too much'2. He delights in Tyrwhitt's edition of Chaucer3. In preparing his own work on Aristotle's Ars Poetica, he writes to Charles Burney in 1786: --'The extreme depravation of the text, its obscurities and ambiguities, are such that I have been forced to give up a greater portion of my comment to philological disquisitions than I could have wished; and a great part of my pains have been employed in proving passages to be unintelligible. But what then? When people fancy they understand what they do not, it is doing some good to show them that they do not. It is some use to pull down what is wrong, if one can't build up what is right'4. He sends Heyne a presentation copy of his translation, writes a Latin letter suggesting a correction of Odyssey, xi 584, and receives a flattering reply from the Gottingen professor5. His English correspondence gives proof of his interest in the Greek Drama and in Greek Music," and in many other matters unconnected with the Classics. His intimate friends included Dr Burney and Dr Parr. Parr wrote in his presentation copy of the Aristotle: --' The gift of the author, whom I am proud and happy to call my friend, because he is one of the best scholars now living, and one of the best men that ever lived'7. Parr also wrote his epitaph: --' Viro, in quo doctrina inerat multiplex et recondita, ingenium elegans et acutum, scribendi genus non exile spinosumque, sed accuratum et exquisitum, in rebus quae ad artem criticam pertinent explicandis sermo sine aculeo et maledictis facelus et sapore paene proprio Athenarum imbutus'8. The writer of...
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