The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, 第 2 巻C. Dilly, 1786 |
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Æfchylus againſt alfo alſo amongſt Athenian Athens Bacchus Banquo battle of Marathon becauſe beſt cafe caft cauſe character chorus circumftance cloſe comedy compofition confifted Count Ranceval dæmons devil drama Euripides fables faid fame fatyrs favour fays fcene fecond feem fhall fhould fifter fion firft firſt fome foon forcery ftate ftatue ftile ftill fubject fublime fuch fuperior fuppofed furniſhing genius Greece Harmodius himſelf Hipparchus Hippias hiſtory Homer honour houſe Iliad inftances interefting Ionia Lady laſt leaſt Macbeth mafter meaſure Meliffa Meliſſa moft moſt Mufæus muſt myſelf nature obferves occafion Odyſſey Olymp paffage paffed paffion Partheniffa perfon Phrynichus Pififtratus pleaſure poem poet Pratinas prefent purpoſe Quintilian reafon reſpect ſay ſcene ſeems Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſome Sophocles ſpeaking ſpirit ſtage ſtanding ſtate ſtory ſtudy ſuch Suidas Thamyris thefe Thefpis themſelves theſe thofe thoſe Tiberius tion tragedy tranflation uſe verſes whilft whofe whoſe
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79 ページ - Homer, and no less evident than he does not know to whom they are to be ascribed; their high antiquity, therefore, is the only point, which this celebrated critic has put out of doubt. The Ilias Minor appears to have been a poem, which. includes the taking of Troy and the return of the Greeks : the incidents of the...
226 ページ - ... are actuated by the same guilty ambition in the opening of the story: both murder their lawful sovereign in the course of it: and both are defeated and slain in battle at the conclusion of it: yet these two characters, under circumstances so similar, are as strongly distinguished in every passage of their dramatic life by the art of the poet, as any two men ever were by the hand of nature. Let us contemplate them in the three following periods; viz. The premeditation of their crime; the perpetration...
105 ページ - Musaeus felt the sacred flame, And burnt for the fair Theban dame Antiope, whom mighty Love Made pregnant by imperial Jove ; The poet plied his amorous strain, Press'd the fond fair, nor press'd in vain. For Ceres, who the veil undrew, That screen'd her mysteries from his view, Propitious this kind truth reveal'd, That woman close besieg'd will yield.
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77 ページ - I must think, of epic poetry, revolving in his capacious mind, the magnificent events of the Grecian association for the destruction of Troy, then fresh in the tradition, if not in the memories of his contemporaries, planned the great design of his immortal Iliad. With this plan arranged and settled in his thoughts beforehand, he began to give a loose to the force and powers of his imagination in strains and rhapsodies, which by frequent recitation fixed upon his memory, and, as he warmed with the...