The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... resembles that of the army he de- fcribes , < 6 Οἱ δ ̓ ἄρ ̓ ἴσαν , ὡσεί τε πυρὶ χθὼν πᾶσα νέμοιο . They pour along like a fire that fweeps the whole 46 earth earth before it . " It is however remarkable that 2 PREFACE .
... resembles that of the army he de- fcribes , < 6 Οἱ δ ̓ ἄρ ̓ ἴσαν , ὡσεί τε πυρὶ χθὼν πᾶσα νέμοιο . They pour along like a fire that fweeps the whole 46 earth earth before it . " It is however remarkable that 2 PREFACE .
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... whole circle of arts , and the whole compass of nature , to fupply his maxims and reflections ; all the in- ward paffions and affections of mankind , to furnish his characters ; and all the outward forms and images of things , for his ...
... whole circle of arts , and the whole compass of nature , to fupply his maxims and reflections ; all the in- ward paffions and affections of mankind , to furnish his characters ; and all the outward forms and images of things , for his ...
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With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. its whole duration employs not fo much as fifty days . Virgil , for want of fo warm a genius , aided himself by taking in a more extensive subject , as well as a greater length of ...
With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical Samuel Johnson. its whole duration employs not fo much as fifty days . Virgil , for want of fo warm a genius , aided himself by taking in a more extensive subject , as well as a greater length of ...
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... whole . We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguishing excellence of each : it is in that we are to Confider him , and in proportion to his degree in that are to admire him . No author or man ever ...
... whole . We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguishing excellence of each : it is in that we are to Confider him , and in proportion to his degree in that are to admire him . No author or man ever ...
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... firing the heavens ; Virgil , like the fame power his benevolence , counselling with the gods , laying ans for empires , and regularly ordering his whole ceation . But , But , after all , it is with great parts PRE F A C E. 15.
... firing the heavens ; Virgil , like the fame power his benevolence , counselling with the gods , laying ans for empires , and regularly ordering his whole ceation . But , But , after all , it is with great parts PRE F A C E. 15.
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Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 123 - So spoke the god who darts celestial fires: He dreads his fury, and some steps retires. Then Phoebus bore the chief of Venus...
Halaman 6 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.