...weakening, obscuring, and disordering the whole. This is what Horace explains perfectly well : — Cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo. Ordinis haec virtus erit, et Venus, aut ego fallor Ut jam nunc dicat, jam nunc debentia dici, Pleraque...

...form, and no better summary of it all than the phrase of Horace (Corneille's motto for his Cinna) : — cui lecta potenter erit res, nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo. The poet who puts all his heart into his plot will find his work done for him : the story provides...

...materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent quid valeant umeri. cui lecta potenter erit res, nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo. It is at once obvious that these lines deal rather with iudicium than with inventio proper. Horace...

...GUTHRIE, Esq ; / JOHN GRAY, Esq ; / And others eminent in this Branch of Literature. / [Rule] / — cui lecta potenter erit res / Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo. Hor. / [Rule] / Volume I. [II, III etc :] / [Double rule] / London : / Printed for J. Newbery, R. Baldwin,...

...found in all of them that devotion to the matter in hand which is the foundation of good writing : cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo. Is this sentence of Horace, this motto of Corneille's, too much of a commonplace for quotation here...

...Horace when he said that the subject rightly chosen will provide what is wanted in art and style ? Cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo. It was chosen by Corneille as a motto for Cinna ; it would do as a summary of all the writings of Scott....

...personal eyes, and in his peculiar moods; thence grows up his style, in the full "sense of the term. " Cui lecta potenter erit res, Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo." * Those who would profit from the stud}' of style should formulate an opinion of what it consists in...

...the direction of his muse he illustrates as happily as any man the truth of Horace's observation, — Cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo. His theory, on the other hand, shows him to have been under the impression that he merely chose to...

...materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequani viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, quid valeant umeri, cui lecta potenter erit res, nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo. ordinis haec virtus erit et venus, aut ego fallor, ut iam nunc dicat him nunc debentia dici, pleraque...

...sequence needs to be thus reversed if facundia as well as ordo are to bear out the promise of 40-1 cui lecta potenter erit res, \ nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo. So Vahlen argued (Ges. Phil. Sckr. i. 452-5), but voices dissenting from Bentley have never been silent....