The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... first productions of every kind , out of which thofe who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each according to his fancy , to culti- vate and beautify . If fome things are too luxuriant , it is owing to the richness ...
... first productions of every kind , out of which thofe who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each according to his fancy , to culti- vate and beautify . If fome things are too luxuriant , it is owing to the richness ...
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... first breathed into it by Homer . I fhall begin with confidering him in this part , as it is naturally the firft ; and I fpeak of it both as it means the defign of a poem , and as it is taken for fiction . may Fable be divided into the ...
... first breathed into it by Homer . I fhall begin with confidering him in this part , as it is naturally the firft ; and I fpeak of it both as it means the defign of a poem , and as it is taken for fiction . may Fable be divided into the ...
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... first productions of every kind , out of which those who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each according to his fancy , to culti- vate and beautify . If fome things are too luxuriant , it is owing to the richness ...
... first productions of every kind , out of which those who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each according to his fancy , to culti- vate and beautify . If fome things are too luxuriant , it is owing to the richness ...
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... especially the machines of the Gods . He feems the first who brought them into a system of ma- chinery for poetry , and fuch a one as makes its greateЯ importance and dignity . For we find thofe authors who impor- 6 PREFACE .
... especially the machines of the Gods . He feems the first who brought them into a system of ma- chinery for poetry , and fuch a one as makes its greateЯ importance and dignity . For we find thofe authors who impor- 6 PREFACE .
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... first who taught that lan- guage of the gods to men . His expreffion is like the colouring of fome great mafters , which difcovers itself to be laid on boldly , and executed with rapidity . It is indeed the strongest and most glowing ...
... first who taught that lan- guage of the gods to men . His expreffion is like the colouring of fome great mafters , which difcovers itself to be laid on boldly , and executed with rapidity . It is indeed the strongest and most glowing ...
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Achilles Æneas againſt Agamemnon Ajax arms Atrides bands bold brave breaſt cauſe chariot chief cloſe counfels courfers courſe crown'd daring dart defcend Diomed divine dreadful Eurypylus Ev'n eyes facred faid fame fate fent fhall fhining fhore fide field fierce fight filent filver fire firft firſt fix'd flain flames flaughter flew fome foul fpear ftrength fuch fury glory Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hafte hand Heaven Hector heroes himſelf hoft hoftile Homer honours hoſt Idomeneus Iliad immortal javelin Jove king lance laſt Lycian Menelaus mighty monarch moſt muſt Neftor numbers o'er Oïleus Pallas Pandarus Patroclus pierc'd plain praiſe Priam prince Pylian race rage raiſe rifing ſhade ſhakes ſhall ſhips ſhore ſhould Simoïs ſkies ſpear ſpoils ſpoke ſpread ſtand ſtate ſteeds ſtood thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Tydeus Tydides Ulyffes Virgil walls warriour whofe whoſe wound
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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...
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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.