Homer doubtless owes to his translator many Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to his character; but to have added can be no great crime, if nothing be taken away. Elegance is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - 186 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1820全文表示 - この書籍について
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 ページ
...and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad, when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 ページ
...what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English ' Iliad,' when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils... | |
| 1882 - 480 ページ
...dtfendit ; that may lawfully be done which cannot be forborne. Time and place will always enforce regard. Elegance is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. Pope made his author graceful, hut lost him some of his sublimity." In support... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 ページ
...what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English " Iliad," when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...be desired, if it be not gained at the expence of dignit y A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils one answer... | |
| Laura Johnson Wylie - 1894 - 242 ページ
...Ovidian graces, "not suitable to his character," that were charged against Pope's Homer, he says that "to have added can be no great crime, if nothing be taken away." : But even Johnson — though perhaps with a touch of the censor toward his great predecessor • —... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 ページ
...One refinement always makes way for another, and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. Ovidian graces not exactly suitable to his character;...is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand cavils... | |
| John Dennis - 1896 - 276 ページ
...improves in elegance, that if some Ovidian graces are, alas ! not to be found in the English Iliad ' to have added can be no great crime if nothing be taken away.' Johnson was not aware that to add ' poetical elegances ' to the words and thoughts of a great poet... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 ページ
...and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand 20 cavils... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 ページ
...and what was expedient to Virgil was necessary to Pope. I suppose many readers of the English Iliad when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty...is surely to be desired, if it be not gained at the expense of dignity. A hero would wish to be loved, as well as to be reverenced. To a thousand 20 cavils... | |
| John Dennis - 1899 - 294 ページ
...improves in elegance, that if some Ovidian graces are, alas! not to be found in the English Iliad ' to have added can be no great crime if nothing be taken away.' Johnson was not aware that to add ' poetical elegances' to the words and thoughts of a great poet is... | |
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