The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Том 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... these also to the fruitfulness of his invention , fince ( as he has managed them ) they are a fort of fuper- numerary pictures of the perfons or things to which they are joined . We see the motion of Hector's plumes in the epithet ...
... these also to the fruitfulness of his invention , fince ( as he has managed them ) they are a fort of fuper- numerary pictures of the perfons or things to which they are joined . We see the motion of Hector's plumes in the epithet ...
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... these alfo to the fruitfulness of his invention , fince ( as he has managed them ) they are a fort of fuper- numerary pictures of the perfons or things to which they are joined . We see the motion of Hector's plumes in the epithet ...
... these alfo to the fruitfulness of his invention , fince ( as he has managed them ) they are a fort of fuper- numerary pictures of the perfons or things to which they are joined . We see the motion of Hector's plumes in the epithet ...
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... these he has derived that harmony , which makes us confefs he had not only the richest head , but the finest ear in the world . This is fo great a truth , that whoever will but confult the tune of his verses , even without understanding ...
... these he has derived that harmony , which makes us confefs he had not only the richest head , but the finest ear in the world . This is fo great a truth , that whoever will but confult the tune of his verses , even without understanding ...
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... these great Authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides , and are only faid to have lefs in comparison with one another . Homer was the greater genius , Virgil the better artift . In one we moft admire the man , in the other ...
... these great Authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides , and are only faid to have lefs in comparison with one another . Homer was the greater genius , Virgil the better artift . In one we moft admire the man , in the other ...
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... these we may reckon fome of his Marvellou Fictions , upon which fo much criticism has been spen as furpaffing all the bounds of probability . Perhaps may be with great and fuperior fouls , as with gigant bodies , which , exerting ...
... these we may reckon fome of his Marvellou Fictions , upon which fo much criticism has been spen as furpaffing all the bounds of probability . Perhaps may be with great and fuperior fouls , as with gigant bodies , which , exerting ...
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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.