The Works of the English Poets: Pope's HomerH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... whofe general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to their reputation . This is the method of Monf . de la Motte ; who yet confeffes upon the whole , that in whatever age Homer had lived , hé must have been the ...
... whofe general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to their reputation . This is the method of Monf . de la Motte ; who yet confeffes upon the whole , that in whatever age Homer had lived , hé must have been the ...
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... whofe words he fometimes copies , and has unhappily followed him in paffages where he wanders from the original . However , had he tranf- lated the whole work , I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil , his verfion of ...
... whofe words he fometimes copies , and has unhappily followed him in paffages where he wanders from the original . However , had he tranf- lated the whole work , I would no more have attempted Homer after him than Virgil , his verfion of ...
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... whofe opinions I am prepared to learn ; though I fear , no judges fo little as our beft poets , who are moft fenfible of the weight of this task . As for the worst , whatever they fhall please to fay , they may give me fome concern as ...
... whofe opinions I am prepared to learn ; though I fear , no judges fo little as our beft poets , who are moft fenfible of the weight of this task . As for the worst , whatever they fhall please to fay , they may give me fome concern as ...
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... whofe advice determined me to undertake this task , who was pleafed to write to me upon that occafion in fuch terms as I cannot repeat without vanity . I was obliged to Sir Richard Steele for a very early recommendation of my ...
... whofe advice determined me to undertake this task , who was pleafed to write to me upon that occafion in fuch terms as I cannot repeat without vanity . I was obliged to Sir Richard Steele for a very early recommendation of my ...
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... whofe whole life is a continued feries of them . Mr. Stanhope , the prefent fecretary of state , will par- don my defire of having it known that he was pleafed to promote this affair . The particular zeal of Mr. Harcourt ( the fon of ...
... whofe whole life is a continued feries of them . Mr. Stanhope , the prefent fecretary of state , will par- don my defire of having it known that he was pleafed to promote this affair . The particular zeal of Mr. Harcourt ( the fon of ...
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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...