The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... field in which no fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer ; and whatever commenda- tions have been allowed them on this head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having ...
... field in which no fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer ; and whatever commenda- tions have been allowed them on this head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having ...
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... field ? The fpoils of cities raz'd , and warriours flain , We share with justice , as with toil we gain : 160 But to refume whate'er thy avarice craves , ( That trick of tyrants ) may be borne by flaves . Yet if our chief for plunder ...
... field ? The fpoils of cities raz'd , and warriours flain , We share with justice , as with toil we gain : 160 But to refume whate'er thy avarice craves , ( That trick of tyrants ) may be borne by flaves . Yet if our chief for plunder ...
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... field , nor mingle in the war . The fire of Gods and all th ' æthereal train , On the warm limits of the farthest main , Now mix with mortals , nor difdain to grace The feafts of Æthiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers ...
... field , nor mingle in the war . The fire of Gods and all th ' æthereal train , On the warm limits of the farthest main , Now mix with mortals , nor difdain to grace The feafts of Æthiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers ...
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... field the moving host appears , With nodding plumes , and groves of waving fpears . The gathering murmur spreads , their trampling feet Beat the loose fands , and thicken to the fleet . With long - refounding cries they urge the train ...
... field the moving host appears , With nodding plumes , and groves of waving fpears . The gathering murmur spreads , their trampling feet Beat the loose fands , and thicken to the fleet . With long - refounding cries they urge the train ...
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... field ! Generous he rifes in the crown's defence , To curb the factious tongue of infolence . Such just examples on offenders shown , Sedition filence , and affert the throne . 330 335 ' Twas thus the general voice the hero prais'd ...
... field ! Generous he rifes in the crown's defence , To curb the factious tongue of infolence . Such just examples on offenders shown , Sedition filence , and affert the throne . 330 335 ' Twas thus the general voice the hero prais'd ...
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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.