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Page v
... tion we are to attribute that unequaled fire and rapture , which is fo forcible in Homer , that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of him- felf while he reads him † . What he writes , * Quod , ut vitium eft , ità copiæ vitium ...
... tion we are to attribute that unequaled fire and rapture , which is fo forcible in Homer , that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of him- felf while he reads him † . What he writes , * Quod , ut vitium eft , ità copiæ vitium ...
Page xiii
... tion of Homer , but where he had not led the defect of genius . It may be true then , that Homer's plan is best , and even perfect : but the fcarcity of variation from it may evi- dently be occafioned by the motives now alledged ...
... tion of Homer , but where he had not led the defect of genius . It may be true then , that Homer's plan is best , and even perfect : but the fcarcity of variation from it may evi- dently be occafioned by the motives now alledged ...
Page xxii
... tion and notes would lead to other difcoveries of this kind . + Probably Addifon , but I am unable to point out the paffage : from this topic , however , Quintilian derives this confolation in behalf of his countryman ; book x . chap ...
... tion and notes would lead to other difcoveries of this kind . + Probably Addifon , but I am unable to point out the paffage : from this topic , however , Quintilian derives this confolation in behalf of his countryman ; book x . chap ...
Page xxvi
... tion , and rotundity . Otherwife , his conceptions are clear , his diction . appropriate , his figures numerous and fplendid , amidst an unaffected purity of phrafe , like conftellations in a winter's fky . Editor . ( though but of a ...
... tion , and rotundity . Otherwife , his conceptions are clear , his diction . appropriate , his figures numerous and fplendid , amidst an unaffected purity of phrafe , like conftellations in a winter's fky . Editor . ( though but of a ...
Page xli
... tion of ufelefs words . It ftood thus originally : " They were a " fort of Attributes that it was a matter of religion to falute them " with on all occafions , and an irreverence to omit . " After this word , in the first edition ...
... tion of ufelefs words . It ftood thus originally : " They were a " fort of Attributes that it was a matter of religion to falute them " with on all occafions , and an irreverence to omit . " After this word , in the first edition ...
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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...