The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry . It is the Invention that in different degrees diftinguishes all great Geniuses : the utmost stretch of human ftudy , learning , and induftry , which masters every thing ...
... most excelled in that which is the very foundation of poetry . It is the Invention that in different degrees diftinguishes all great Geniuses : the utmost stretch of human ftudy , learning , and induftry , which masters every thing ...
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... most animated nature imaginable ; every thing moves , every thing lives , and is put in ac- tion . If a council be called , or a battle fought , you are not coldly informed of what was faid or done as from a third perfon ; the reader is ...
... most animated nature imaginable ; every thing moves , every thing lives , and is put in ac- tion . If a council be called , or a battle fought , you are not coldly informed of what was faid or done as from a third perfon ; the reader is ...
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... most fhort and fingle fubject that ever was chofen by any Poet . Yet this he has supplied with a vaster variety of incidents and events , and crowded with a greater num- ber of councils , fpeeches , battles , and episodes of all kinds ...
... most fhort and fingle fubject that ever was chofen by any Poet . Yet this he has supplied with a vaster variety of incidents and events , and crowded with a greater num- ber of councils , fpeeches , battles , and episodes of all kinds ...
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... most evidently , affect us not in proportion to thofe of Homer . His characters of va lour are much alike ; even that of Turnus seems no way peculiar but as it is in a fuperior degree ; and we fee nothing that differences the courage of ...
... most evidently , affect us not in proportion to thofe of Homer . His characters of va lour are much alike ; even that of Turnus seems no way peculiar but as it is in a fuperior degree ; and we fee nothing that differences the courage of ...
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... most enlivened forms of it . We acknowledge him the father of poetical diction , the first who taught that lan- guage of the gods to men . His expreffion is like the colouring of fome great masters , which discovers itself to be laid on ...
... most enlivened forms of it . We acknowledge him the father of poetical diction , the first who taught that lan- guage of the gods to men . His expreffion is like the colouring of fome great masters , which discovers itself to be laid on ...
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Page 6 - How fertile will that imagination appear which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons, and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed?
Page 10 - ... together by the extent and fecundity of his imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, presented themselves in an instant, and had their impressions taken off to perfection at a heat...
Page 13 - 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.
Page 29 - 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.
Page 268 - But thou, O king, to council call the old; Great is thy sway, and weighty are thy cares; Thy high commands must spirit all our wars. With Thracian wines recruit thy honour'd guests, For happy counsels flow from sober feasts.
Page 1 - Nature to more regularity, and such a figure, which the common eye may better take in, and is therefore more entertained with. And perhaps the reason why common...
Page 5 - If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Page 2 - If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature.
Page 30 - However, had he translated the whole work, I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil, his Version of whom (notwithstanding some human errors) is the most noble and spirited translation I know in any language.
Page 239 - Olympus' cloudy tops arise. The sire of gods his awful silence broke, The heavens, attentive, trembled as he spoke : "Celestial states, immortal gods, give ear! Hear our decree, and reverence what ye hear ! The fix'd decree, which not all heaven can move ; Thou, Fate ! fulfil it ; and, ye powers, approve...