 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...fide, I would not be fo delicate as thofe modern criticks, who are fliocked at the fervile offices and mean employments in which we fometimes fee the...without their guards, princes tending their flocks, and princelTes drawing water from the fprings. When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...other fide, I would not be fo delicate as thofe modern criticks, who are mocked at the fervile offices and mean employments in which we fometimes fee the...a pleafure in taking a view of that fimplicity, in oppof:tion to the luxury of fucceeding ages ; in beholding monarchs without their guards, princes tending... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...taking a view of that fimplicity, in oppof:tion to the luxury of fucceeding ages ; in beholding monarch* without their guards, princes tending their flocks, and princefles drawing water from the fpringsWhen we read Homer, we ought to refleft that we are reading the moft ancient author in the heathen... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...other fide, I would not be fo delicate as thofe modern critics, who are Ihocked at the fervile offices and mean employments in which we fometimes fee the...from the fprings. When we read Homer, we ought to refied that we are reading the moft ancient author in the heathen world ; and thofe who confider him... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...fomctimes fee the heroe» of Homer engaged. There is a plcafure in caking a view of thut (implicit)', in oppofition to the luxury of fucceeding ages: in...without their guards, princes tending their flocks, and princefleji drawing water from the fprings. When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...other fide, I would not be fo delicate as thofe modem critics, who are (hocked at the fervile offices and mean employments in which we fometimes fee the heroes of Homer engaged. There is a pleafuic in taking a view of that fimplicity, in oppofition to the luxury of fuceeeding ages : in beholding... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 416 pages
...other fide, I would not be fo delicate as thofe modem criticks, who are fhocked at the fertile offices and mean employments in which we fometimes fee the...without their guards, Princes tending their flocks, and Princeffes drawing water from the fprings. When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...exaft conformity to what he obferved in his travels. Effay en the Original Genius of Homer, p. 158. we fometimes fee the Heroes of Homer engaged. There...Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the moft ancient author in the heathen world ; and thofe who confider him in this light, will double their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...delicate as iholl- rr '_rn criticks, who are mocked at the fervile offices and mean employments in we fometimes fee the heroes of Homer engaged. There is a pleafure in taking a weir of that fimplicity, in oppofition to the luxury ot fuccccding agts ; in beholding moKrchs without... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...other fide, I would not be fo delicate as thofe modern criticks, who are fhocked at the fervile offices and mean employments in which we fometimes fee the...flocks, and princefles drawing water from the fprings. \V hen we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the imiit ancient author in the heathen... | |
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