The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 第 35 巻Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... Virgil has justly contested with him , and others may have their pretenfions as to particular excellencies ; but his Invention remains yet unrivaled . Nor is it a wonder if he has ever been acknowledged the greatest of poets , who moft ...
... Virgil has justly contested with him , and others may have their pretenfions as to particular excellencies ; but his Invention remains yet unrivaled . Nor is it a wonder if he has ever been acknowledged the greatest of poets , who moft ...
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... Virgil , but difcerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more fhining than fierce , but every where equal and conftant : in Lucan and Statius , it bursts out in fudden , short , and interrupted flashes : in Milton it glows ...
... Virgil , but difcerned as through a glass , reflected from Homer , more fhining than fierce , but every where equal and conftant : in Lucan and Statius , it bursts out in fudden , short , and interrupted flashes : in Milton it glows ...
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... Virgil , for want of fo warm a genius , aided himself by taking in a more extensive subject , as well as a greater ... Virgil has the fame for An- chifes ; and Statius ( rather than omit them ) destroys the unity of his action for thofe ...
... Virgil , for want of fo warm a genius , aided himself by taking in a more extensive subject , as well as a greater ... Virgil has the fame for An- chifes ; and Statius ( rather than omit them ) destroys the unity of his action for thofe ...
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... Virgil , that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention , as might be capable of furnishing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem . The Marvellous Fable includes whatever is fuperna- tural , and especially ...
... Virgil , that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention , as might be capable of furnishing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem . The Marvellous Fable includes whatever is fuperna- tural , and especially ...
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... Virgil , than when we are engaged in Homer : all which are the effects of a colder invention , that interefts us lefs in the action defcribed : Homer makes us hearers , and Virgil leaves us readers . If in the next place we take a view ...
... Virgil , than when we are engaged in Homer : all which are the effects of a colder invention , that interefts us lefs in the action defcribed : Homer makes us hearers , and Virgil leaves us readers . If in the next place we take a view ...
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1 ページ - 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.
149 ページ - 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.
9 ページ - 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.
8 ページ - 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...
17 ページ - 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.
123 ページ - So spoke the god who darts celestial fires: He dreads his fury, and some steps retires. Then Phoebus bore the chief of Venus...
6 ページ - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
3 ページ - 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...
7 ページ - 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.