 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...rirll who introduc'd the deities (as Herodotus imagines) into the religion ofGreict, he feems the firft who brought them into a fyftem of Machinery for Poetry, and fuch an one as makes its greatelt importance and dignity. For we find thofe authors who have been offended... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...fable includes whatever is fupernatural, and efpecially the machines of the Gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftem of machinery for poetry,...notion of the Gods, conftantly laying their accufation a train ft Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe there might be to blame his machines... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...fables includes whatever is fupernatural, and efpecially the machines of the Gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftem of machinery for poetry, and fuch a one as makes its grentoft importance and dignity. For we find thofe authprs. who have been offended at the literal .... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...fupernatural, and efpecially the machines of the Gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftera of machinery for poetry, and fuch a one as makes its...Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe their might be to blame his machines in a philofophical or religious view, they are fo perfeft in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...the machines of the Gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftem of machinery fbrpostry, and fuch a one as makes its greateft importance and dignity. For we findthofe authors who have been offended at the literal notion of the Gods, eonftantly laying their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...Fable includes whatever is fupernatural, and efpecially the machines of the Gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftem of machinery for poetry,...makes its greateft importance and dignity. For we fmd tl:ofc authors who have been offended at the literal notion of the Gods, conftantly laying their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...Fable includes whatever is fupernatural, and efpecially the machines of the Gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftem of machinery for poetry, and fuch a on« as makes its greatuft importance and dignity. For we find thofe authors who have been o(fended... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...fable includes whatever ii fupernatural, and efpecially the machines of the gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftem of machinery for poetry,...makes its greateft importance and dignity. For we hnd thofe authors who have been offended at the literal notion of the gods, conftantly laying their... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...fupernatural, and efpecially the machine* of the gods. He feems the firft who brought them into a fyftcm of machinery for poetry, and fuch a one as makes its...have been offended at the literal notion of the gods, con ft ant ly laying their accufation againft Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...the machines of the gods. He fcems the firll who brought them into a fyftem of machinery for poctrr, and fuch a one as makes its greateft importance and...have been offended at the literal notion of the gods, coullantly laying; their accufation againft Homer as the chief fupport of it. But whatever caufe there... | |
| |
... in the poetic, that mankind have been ever since contented to follow them : none have been able to enlarge the... 
