The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The SpectatorE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1810 - English essays |
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Page 72
... Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Ho- race has observed . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the investing of Troy , it is 72 No. 267 ...
... Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Ho- race has observed . Had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the investing of Troy , it is 72 No. 267 ...
Page 73
... Homer has noth- ing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very nature of ...
... Homer has noth- ing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very nature of ...
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... Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the actionof the Iliad , and that of the Eneid , were in them- selves exceeding short , but are so beautifully ex- tended and diversified by the invention of episo ...
... Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the actionof the Iliad , and that of the Eneid , were in them- selves exceeding short , but are so beautifully ex- tended and diversified by the invention of episo ...
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... Homer and Virgil to truth with fiction , as they were in no d offending the religion of their country by as for Milton , he had not only a very few stances upon which to raise his poem , also obliged to proceed with the greatest in ...
... Homer and Virgil to truth with fiction , as they were in no d offending the religion of their country by as for Milton , he had not only a very few stances upon which to raise his poem , also obliged to proceed with the greatest in ...
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... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His princes are as much ...
... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His princes are as much ...
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Page 246 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 246 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 248 - Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Page 251 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Page 133 - For joy of offer'd peace: but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 250 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 218 - Milton's sentiments and ideas were so wonderfully sublime, that it would have been impossible for him to have represented them in their full strength and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished him with such glorious conceptions.
Page 284 - Man, about this time To be created like to us, though less In power and excellence, but favour'd more Of him who rules above ; so was his will Pronounced among the gods, and by an oath, That shook Heaven's whole circumference, confirm'd.
Page 247 - His sentiments are every way answerable to his character, and suitable to a created being of the most exalted and most depraved nature. Such is that in which he takes possession of his place of torments : -Hail horrors ! hail Infernal world ! and thou profoundest hell Receive thy new possessor, one who brings A mind not to be chang"d by place or time. And afterwards : , Here at least We shall be free ! th...
Page 247 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? here at least We shall be free ; th...