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Page iii
... eye may better take in , and is therefore more entertained with . And perhaps the reason why common criticks are inclined to prefer a judicious and methodical genius to a great and fruitful one , is , because they find it easier for ...
... eye may better take in , and is therefore more entertained with . And perhaps the reason why common criticks are inclined to prefer a judicious and methodical genius to a great and fruitful one , is , because they find it easier for ...
Page iv
... eyes upon a single spot , that does " not produce fome beautiful plant or flower . " And here it may not be unseasonable to remind the reader , that the fobriety of Addifon's imagination and the chaftifed accuracy of his judgement ...
... eyes upon a single spot , that does " not produce fome beautiful plant or flower . " And here it may not be unseasonable to remind the reader , that the fobriety of Addifon's imagination and the chaftifed accuracy of his judgement ...
Page xliii
... eye * . Some accufe him for the fame things which they overlook or praise in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the Æneis to those of the Iliad , for the fame reasons which might set the Odyffes above the Æneis : as ...
... eye * . Some accufe him for the fame things which they overlook or praise in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the Æneis to those of the Iliad , for the fame reasons which might set the Odyffes above the Æneis : as ...
Page xlv
... eyes of one fort of Criticks ; but that warmth of fancy will carry the loudest and most universal † applauses , which holds the * That is , " Under the confideration of what he was in his " own age , and what he would have been in any ...
... eyes of one fort of Criticks ; but that warmth of fancy will carry the loudest and most universal † applauses , which holds the * That is , " Under the confideration of what he was in his " own age , and what he would have been in any ...
Page lii
... eye diftinguishes him at first fight : those who are not his greatest admirers Fenton , in particular , throughout his tranflation of four books in the Odyffey , has ftudiously adopted on every poffible oppor- tunity the Miltonian ...
... eye diftinguishes him at first fight : those who are not his greatest admirers Fenton , in particular , throughout his tranflation of four books in the Odyffey , has ftudiously adopted on every poffible oppor- tunity the Miltonian ...
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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...