Letters Concerning Poetical Translations, and Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c.. |
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... Stile ; for without this , tho ' the Translation may be very good in all other respects , it will hardly deserve the Name of a Tranflation . The two great Men amongst the Antients differ from each other as much in this particular as in ...
... Stile ; for without this , tho ' the Translation may be very good in all other respects , it will hardly deserve the Name of a Tranflation . The two great Men amongst the Antients differ from each other as much in this particular as in ...
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William Benson. fings the Anger or Rage of Achilles , is rapid . The Stile of Virgil , who celebrates the Piety of E- neas , is majestick . But it may be proper to explain in what this Difference confifts . The Stile is rapid , when ...
William Benson. fings the Anger or Rage of Achilles , is rapid . The Stile of Virgil , who celebrates the Piety of E- neas , is majestick . But it may be proper to explain in what this Difference confifts . The Stile is rapid , when ...
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William Benson. Here you fee what is a rapid Stile . I will now fhew you what is quite the contrary , that is , a ma- jeftic one . To inftance in Virgil : " Arms and the " Man I fing ; the firft who from the Shores of Troy ( the Fugitive ...
William Benson. Here you fee what is a rapid Stile . I will now fhew you what is quite the contrary , that is , a ma- jeftic one . To inftance in Virgil : " Arms and the " Man I fing ; the firft who from the Shores of Troy ( the Fugitive ...
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... Stile . But a few more Lines of the Be- ginning both of the Iliad and of the Eneid will make it still more plain . ILIA D. " The Anger of Achilles , Goddess , fing ; " Which to the Greeks did endlefs Sorrows bring ; " And fent untimely ...
... Stile . But a few more Lines of the Be- ginning both of the Iliad and of the Eneid will make it still more plain . ILIA D. " The Anger of Achilles , Goddess , fing ; " Which to the Greeks did endlefs Sorrows bring ; " And fent untimely ...
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... Stile out of Profe , and occafions that Sufpenfe which is the Life of Poetry . This builds the lofty Rhyme ( as Milton expreffes it ) in fuch manner as to cause that Majesty in Verse of which I have faid fo much before , that there is ...
... Stile out of Profe , and occafions that Sufpenfe which is the Life of Poetry . This builds the lofty Rhyme ( as Milton expreffes it ) in fuch manner as to cause that Majesty in Verse of which I have faid fo much before , that there is ...
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Page 40 - OF Man's firft difobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whofe mortal tafte Brought death into the world, and all our woe. With lofs of Eden, till one greater Man Reftore us, and regain the blifsful feat, 5 Sing, heav'nly Mufe, that on the fecret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didft infpire That fhepherd, who firft taught the chofen feed...
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