The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... heaven : but in Ho- mer , and in him only , it burns every where clearly , and every where irrefiftibly . I fhall here endeavour to fhew , how this vaft Inven- tion exerts itself in a manner fuperior to that of any poet , through all ...
... heaven : but in Ho- mer , and in him only , it burns every where clearly , and every where irrefiftibly . I fhall here endeavour to fhew , how this vaft Inven- tion exerts itself in a manner fuperior to that of any poet , through all ...
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... Heaven aton'd fhall dying Greece restore , And Phoebus dart his burning shafts no more . He said , and fat : when Chalcas thus reply'd : Chalcas the wife , the Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehenfive view The ...
... Heaven aton'd fhall dying Greece restore , And Phoebus dart his burning shafts no more . He said , and fat : when Chalcas thus reply'd : Chalcas the wife , the Grecian priest and guide , That facred feer , whofe comprehenfive view The ...
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... ftain'd , Is Heaven offended , and a priest profan'd ; Because my prize , my beauteous maid I hold , And heavenly charms prefer to proffer'd gold ? 135 140 A maid , A maid , unmatch'd in manners as in face , ILIAD , BOOK I. 41.
... ftain'd , Is Heaven offended , and a priest profan'd ; Because my prize , my beauteous maid I hold , And heavenly charms prefer to proffer'd gold ? 135 140 A maid , A maid , unmatch'd in manners as in face , ILIAD , BOOK I. 41.
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... Heaven . The force of keen reproaches let him feel , But sheath , obedient , thy revenging steel .. 280 For I pronounce ( and truft a heavenly Power ) : Thy injur'd honour has its fated hour . When the proud monarch shall thy arms ...
... Heaven . The force of keen reproaches let him feel , But sheath , obedient , thy revenging steel .. 280 For I pronounce ( and truft a heavenly Power ) : Thy injur'd honour has its fated hour . When the proud monarch shall thy arms ...
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... Heaven ? Here on the monarch's speech Achilles broke , And furious , thus , and interrupting spoke : Tyrant , I well deserv'd thy galling chain , To live thy flave , and still to serve in vain ; Should I fubmit to each unjust decree ...
... Heaven ? Here on the monarch's speech Achilles broke , And furious , thus , and interrupting spoke : Tyrant , I well deserv'd thy galling chain , To live thy flave , and still to serve in vain ; Should I fubmit to each unjust decree ...
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Страница 1 - Thus his measures, instead of being fetters to his sense, were always in readiness to run along with the warmth of his rapture, and even to give a farther representation of his notions, in the correspondence of their sounds to what they signified.
Страница 149 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Страница 9 - I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned.
Страница 8 - I must confess myself utterly incapable of doing justice to Homer. I attempt him in no other hope, but that which one may entertain without much vanity, of giving a more tolerable copy of him than any entire...
Страница 17 - Tis ours the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis safer through the camp to go, And rob a subject, than despoil a foe.
Страница 123 - So spoke the god who darts celestial fires: He dreads his fury, and some steps retires. Then Phoebus bore the chief of Venus...
Страница 6 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Страница 3 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Страница 7 - Homer, and which, though it might be accommodated (as has been already shewn) to the ear of those times, is by no means so to ours: but one may wait for opportunities of placing them, where they derive an additional beauty from the occasions on which they are employed ; and in doing this properly, a translator may at once shew his fancy and his judgment.