 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...that of the latter has been more difficult. Whoever expects here the fame pomp of verfe, and the fame ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad, he will, and he ought to be difappointed. Were the original otherwife, it had been an offence againft nature ; and were the translation... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...that of the latter has been more difficult. Whoever expects here the fame pomp of verfe, anil the fame ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad, he will, and he ought to be difappointed. Were the original otherwife, it had been an offence againft nature ; and were the tranflation... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...that of the latter bus been more difficult. Whoever expects here the fame pomp of verfe, and the fame ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad, he will, and he ought to be difappointed. Were the original othervvife, it had been an offence againft nature ; and were the translation... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...been much the more difficult. r F 3 Whoever Whoever expects here the fame pomp of verfe, and the fame ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad ; he will, and he ought to be difappointed. Were the original otherwife, it had been an offence againft nature ; and were the tranflation... | |
 | Homer - Greek poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...the harder task to Homer himself, I cannot pretend to determine; but to his translator I can affirm (however unequal all his imitations must be) that...difficult. Whoever expects here the same pomp of verse, and 180 the same ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad, will, and ought to be disappointed. Were the original... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...latter has been much the more difficult. Whoever expects here the fame pomp of verfe, and the fame ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad; he will, and he ought to be difappointed. Were the original otherwife, it had been an offence againft nature ; and were the tranflation... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...latter has been much the more difficult. • Whoever expects here the fame pomp of verfe, and the fame ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad ; he will, and he ought to be difappointed. Were the original otherwife, it had been an offence again-ft nature ; and were the tranflation... | |
 | Greek literature - 1809 - 364 pages
...the harder task to Homer himself, I cannot pretend to determine ; but to his translator I can affirm (however unequal all his imitations must be) that...and the same ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad, will, and ought to be disappointed. Were the original otherwise, it had been an offence against nature... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...Whoever expects here the same pomp of veree, and the same ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad, be will, and he ought to be, disappointed. Were the original...offence against nature ; and were the translation so, it «ere an offence against Homer, which is the same thing. It most be allowed that there is a majesty... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...the harder task to Homer himself I cannot pretend to determine; but to his translator I can affirm (however unequal all his imitations must be) that of the latter has been more difficult. Whoever expects here the same pomp of verse, and the same ornaments of diction, as... | |
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I can af linn (however unequal all his imitations must be) that of the latter has been much more difficult. Whoever expects here the same pomp of verse, and the same ornaments of diction, as in the Iliad, he will, and he ought to be, disappointed. Were... 
