| 1897 - 1044 pages
...afterwards to enjoy immortal life in the imagination of the world. I shall deal to-day with the laws of poetical expression, in other words, of the outward...for example — have wanted the perfect art which is-needed to do justice to their thoughts. Thus Dryden, in his lines on the death of Oldham, asks :... | |
| Ernest A. Menze, Karl Menges - 2010 - 365 pages
...Schriften, ed. Lachmann (1886ff.), vol. 1, 229. 211. "Cui lecta . . .": Horace, De arte poetica, 40f.: "Cui lecta potenter erit res, / nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo." (Who possesses his material in a masterful collection, he will not lack persuasiveness and lucid order.)... | |
| R. M. Seiler - 1980 - 476 pages
...respect is the reverse of Horace's — a great artist in words, if ever there was one — who says: Cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo. (3) How is this? Mr Pater ascribes Flaubert's efforts (which, from his own account, amounted to agony)... | |
| Steffen Martus - 1999 - 600 pages
...verbindet sich mit der Person, weil es scheinbar Das Binnenzitat: Horaz: Ars poetica, V.41, recte: „cui lecta potenter erit res, / nee facundia deseret hunc nee lucidus ordo" („Wer einen Stoff wählt nach dem Maße seiner Kraft, dem wird es weder an gutem Ausdruck fehlen... | |
| 1884 - 706 pages
...clearness which will command the highest respect. His subject is a difficult one, but he has mastered it. " Cui lecta potenter erit res, Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo." It remains for us within the space available and under the limitations of a too brief opportunity of... | |
| 1913 - 674 pages
...which has been recalled to me by Mr WA Cox, in the Ars Poetica, lines 40-44. There Horace says — 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 iam nunc debenlia dici, Pleraque... | |
| 1837 - 598 pages
...promises both order and good style to those who select their theme judiciously : — " — — — Cui lecta potenter erit res, Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo." This admission is not made with a view of lessening the labour of compilation so much as to direct... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1832 - 638 pages
...pregnant with meaning, that the choice of a subject is the cardinal point in every literary attempt: cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee lucidus ordo. An unavoidable formality attends the constrained labours of a mind which is tasked, especially in the... | |
| 1885 - 440 pages
...Miscellany, March and August, 1883; March, June, September, and November, 1884. A TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE, cui lecta potenter erit res Nee facundia deseret hunc, nee — lucidus Ordo. — HORAT. All smatterers are more brisk and pert Than those who understand an art, As little sparkles... | |
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