Marco Girolamo Vida quotes

I sing the form of war, the bloodless plain, Armies of ivory, and a mock campaign; How two bold kings in different armour veil'd, One black, one white, for conquest fought the field. (Marco Girolamo Vida)
Be sure, from nature never to depart; To copy nature is the task of art. View quote
Marco Girolamo Vida
To all, proportioned terms he must dispense, And make the sound a picture of the sense. View quote
Marco Girolamo Vida
Nor would I scruple, with a due regard, To read sometimes a rude unpolished bard, Among whose labours I may find a line, Which from unsightly rust I may refine, And, with a better grace, adopt it into mine. View quote
Marco Girolamo Vida
I only pointed out the paths that lead The panting youth to steep Parnassus' head, And showed the tuneful Muses from afar, Mixed in a solemn choir and dancing there. View quote
Marco Girolamo Vida
When first to man the privilege was given To hold by verse an intercourse with Heaven, Unwilling that the immortal art should lie Cheap, and exposed to every vulgar eye, Great Jove, to drive away the groveling crowd, To narrow bounds confined the glorious road, For more exalted spirits to pursue, And left it open to the sacred few. View quote
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The vast applause shall reach the starry frame, No years, no ages shall obscure thy fame, And Earth's last ends shall hear thy darling name. View quote
Marco Girolamo Vida
As yet unfold the event on no pretense, 'Tis your chief task to keep us in suspense. View quote
Marco Girolamo Vida
But ne'er the subject of your work proclaim In its own colors and its genuine name; Let it by distant tokens be conveyed, And wrapped in other words, and covered in their shade. At last the subject from the friendly shroud Bursts out, and shines the brighter from the cloud; Then the dissolving darkness breaks away, And every object glares in open day. Thus great Ulysses' toils were I to choose For the main theme that should employ my Muse, By his long labors of immortal fame Should shine my hero, but conceal his name; As one who, lost at sea, had nations seen, And marked their towns, their manners, and their men, Since Troy was leveled to the dust by Greece- Till a few lines epitomized the piece. View quote
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While the hoarse ocean beats the sounding shore, Dashed from the strand, the flying waters roar. View quote
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With gay descriptions sprinkle here and there Some grave instructive sentences with care, That touch on life, some moral good pursue, And give us virtue in a transient view; Rules, which the future sire may make his own, And point the golden precepts to his son. (Marco Girolamo Vida)
Thus when the names of heroes we declare, Names, whose unpolished sounds offend the ear, We add, or lop some branches which abound, Till the harsh accents are with smoothness crowned That mellows every word, and softens every sound. View quote
Marco Girolamo Vida

Marco Girolamo Vida

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