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It is necessary to a fair consideration of the question, that the whole passage in which the words occur should be kept in view: 'Si quid inexpertum scenae committis, et audes Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet. Difficile est propriè communia dicere: tuque Rectiùs Iliacum carmen deducis in actus, Qu
No doubt it is his first duty to fit the end to the beginning, and he will endeavour to do so. But he should still keep in his hands the power of remedying any defect in this respect. "Servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit," should be kept in view as to every character and every string of action.
'We find, he says, 'a great arbitrariness of proceeding, and much boldness of innovation, guided by no sure principle'; here it is: qualis ab incepto.
Your account of your journey to Fores, the RAVEN, OLD CASTLE, &c. &c. made me half mad. Are you not rather too late in the year for fine weather, which is the life and soul of seeing places? I hope your pleasure will continue qualis ab incepto, &c. His judgment of dramatick pieces, so far as concerns their exhibition on the stage, must be allowed to have considerable weight.
Your account of your journey to Fores, the raven, old castle, &c., &c., made me half mad. Are you not rather too late in the year for fine weather, which is the life and soul of seeing places? I hope your pleasure will continue qualis ab incepto, &c. 'Your friend threatens me much. I only wish that he would put his threats in execution, and, if he prints his play, I will forgive him.
Charles Lamb strongly recommended him to leave it unfinished, and Hartley Coleridge, in every respect as competent a judge on that point as could well be found, always declared his conviction that his father could not, at least qualis ab incepto, have finished the poem.
All the counsels, all the arguments in the world may prove unavailing; you will give him explanations, you will convince his mind, and yet his will will play the haughty madam and remain motionless as a rock. Vergil, Aen., lib. 6, v. 470: Non magis incepto vultum sermone movetur, Quam si dura silex, aut stet Marpesia cautes.
I flatter myself servetur ad imum, qualis ab incepto processerit. He is in excellent spirits, and I have a rich Journal of his conversation. I could not resist the impulse of writing to you from this place. The situation of the old castle corresponds exactly to Shakspeare's description. While we were there to-day, it happened oddly, that a raven perched upon one of the chimney-tops, and croaked.
I flatter myself, servetur ad imum, qualis ab incepto processerit . He is in excellent spirits, and I have a rich journal of his conversation. Look back, Davy , to Litchfield, run up through the time that has elapsed since you first knew Mr. Johnson, and enjoy with me his present extraordinary Tour. I could not resist the impulse of writing to you from this place.
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