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... Criticism , to have cultivated an attach- Editor . ment . + Let me for once presume to instruct the times , To know the poet from the man of rhymes . ' Tis he , who gives my breast a thousand pains ; Can make me feel each passion that ...
... Criticism , to have cultivated an attach- Editor . ment . + Let me for once presume to instruct the times , To know the poet from the man of rhymes . ' Tis he , who gives my breast a thousand pains ; Can make me feel each passion that ...
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... criticism , and make us admire even while we disapprove . Nay , where this appears , though attended with absurdities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we see nothing but its own splendor . This Fire is discerned in Virgil ...
... criticism , and make us admire even while we disapprove . Nay , where this appears , though attended with absurdities , it brightens all the rubbish about it , till we see nothing but its own splendor . This Fire is discerned in Virgil ...
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... criticism savours more of traditionary cant , than maniy rectitude of independent judgement . I regard Virgil myself as the most consummate of all poets ; but his claim to invention is impo- tent indeed . He was an universal imitator ...
... criticism savours more of traditionary cant , than maniy rectitude of independent judgement . I regard Virgil myself as the most consummate of all poets ; but his claim to invention is impo- tent indeed . He was an universal imitator ...
Page lvii
... Criticism , ver . 364 ———— 374 . † No man , who was at all sensible of the pre - eminence of his own powers , and not disposed to disparage them from an affectation . of false humility , could express himself with a more becoming ...
... Criticism , ver . 364 ———— 374 . † No man , who was at all sensible of the pre - eminence of his own powers , and not disposed to disparage them from an affectation . of false humility , could express himself with a more becoming ...
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... criticism . It is a great loss to the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to translate the Iliad † . * There is no less justice and precision in this estimate of Hobbes ' merits as a translator . Ogilby , I think , is too much ...
... criticism . It is a great loss to the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to translate the Iliad † . * There is no less justice and precision in this estimate of Hobbes ' merits as a translator . Ogilby , I think , is too much ...
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Achilles action admiration Ægypt Æneas Æneid Agamemnon ancient anger appears Aristotle arms army Asius Atrides beauty Briseïs catalogue Chalcas Chapman character chief Chryses command couplet criticism divine Dryden edition Editor elegant epithets Eustathius expression eyes fable farther genius give glory Goddess Gods Grecian Greece Greeks heav'nly heaven Hector hero Hesiod Homer Homer says honour Ibid Iliad imagine imitation invention Jove Jupiter king learning Leo Allatius Madam Dacier mankind manner mentioned mighty moral Muses nature Nestor Nireus o'er observed occasion Odysses Odyssey Ogilby original particular passage passion Patroclus plain Plutarch poet poet's poetical poetry Pope pow'r priest princes Pteleon Quintilian rage reader remarks revenge rhymes river sceptre seems shews ships shore simile sire speak speech story Strab Suidas thee Thetis thing thou thought thro tion translation Travers Trojan troops Troy Ulysses verse Virgil warriours words καὶ