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Page xii
... same practice , but generally carried it fo far as to fuperinduce a multiplicity of fables , destroy the unity of action , and lose their readers in an unreasonable length of time . Nor is it only in the main defign that they have been ...
... same practice , but generally carried it fo far as to fuperinduce a multiplicity of fables , destroy the unity of action , and lose their readers in an unreasonable length of time . Nor is it only in the main defign that they have been ...
Page xiii
... same for Anchises , and Statius ( rather than omit them ) deftroys the unity of his action for those of Archemorus . If Ulyffes visit the shades , the Æneas of Virgil and Scipio of Silius are fent after him . be detained from his return ...
... same for Anchises , and Statius ( rather than omit them ) deftroys the unity of his action for those of Archemorus . If Ulyffes visit the shades , the Æneas of Virgil and Scipio of Silius are fent after him . be detained from his return ...
Page xix
... same stamp " and character : fortemque Gyam , fortemque Cloanthum . " I do not fee any thing new or particular in Turnus . - In short , " there is neither that variety nor novelty in the perfons of the 66 Eneid , which we meet with in ...
... same stamp " and character : fortemque Gyam , fortemque Cloanthum . " I do not fee any thing new or particular in Turnus . - In short , " there is neither that variety nor novelty in the perfons of the 66 Eneid , which we meet with in ...
Page xxxvii
... same vast invention , that his Similes have been thought too exuberant and full of circumstances . The force of this faculty is feen in nothing more , than in its inability to confine itself to that single circum- ftance upon which the ...
... same vast invention , that his Similes have been thought too exuberant and full of circumstances . The force of this faculty is feen in nothing more , than in its inability to confine itself to that single circum- ftance upon which the ...
Page lxxi
... same favour at Athens , that has been fhewn me by its learned Rival , the University of Oxford . And I can hardly envy him thofe pompous honours he received after death , when I re- flect on the enjoyment of so many agreeable ...
... same favour at Athens , that has been fhewn me by its learned Rival , the University of Oxford . And I can hardly envy him thofe pompous honours he received after death , when I re- flect on the enjoyment of so many agreeable ...
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Achilles Ægypt Æneid againſt Agamemnon alfo alſo anſwer Atrides beauty becauſe cauſe Chalcas Chapman chief compariſon Dacier defcribe defign deſcription Dryden edition Editor Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fceptre feems fhall fhews fhips fhore fimile firft firſt fome fpeech ftill fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods greateſt Grecian Greece Greeks heroes himſelf Homer Homer fays honour Ibid Iliad itſelf Jove Jupiter juſt king laſt Leo Allatius loft maſter moft moſt muſt Neftor Nireus o'er obferved occafion Ogilby original paffage paffion Peneus perfons plain pleaſed pleaſure Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry pow'r praiſe prefent preferved prieſt Pteleon Quintilian raiſed reader reaſon refpect repreſented rhymes rife ſays ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhips ſhore ſhould ſkies ſpeak ſpirit ſpoke ſtate ſtill ſtory Strab Suidas thefe themſelves theſe Thetis thofe thoſe thou thouſand tranflator Travers Trojan Troy Ulyffes uſed verfe verfion verſe Virgil whofe whoſe words καὶ
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Page lxviii - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page xxxii - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Page xvii - Every one has something so singularly his own, that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features, than the poet has by their manners.
Page lxvi - ... terms as I cannot repeat without vanity. I was obliged to Sir Richard Steele for a very early recommendation of my undertaking to the publick.
Page lix - In a word, the nature of the man may account for his whole performance ; for he appears, from his preface and remarks, to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry.
Page lxix - All you need do (says he) is to leave them just as they are ; call on Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observations on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him much...
Page iv - ... through an uniform and bounded walk of art, than to comprehend the vast and various extent of nature.
Page lx - 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 ix - Statius it bursts out in sudden, short, and interrupted flashes: in Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardour by the force of art: in Shakespeare it strikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven: but in Homer, and in him only, it burns everywhere clearly and everywhere irresistibly.
Page xvi - ... in the poetic, that mankind have been ever since contented to follow them : none have been able to enlarge the...