The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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Strona 8
... expression , and in such har- mony of numbers , all which put together , consti- tute the os divinum ; that the reader is inspired with sentiments of honour and virtue ; he thinks with abhorrence of all that is base and trifling ; 8 ...
... expression , and in such har- mony of numbers , all which put together , consti- tute the os divinum ; that the reader is inspired with sentiments of honour and virtue ; he thinks with abhorrence of all that is base and trifling ; 8 ...
Strona 19
... expressions , willing to believe it if he could , is forced to decline the dispute , and leave it in the same uncertainty in which he found it . The story of the two Poets meeting in Delos is a manifest forgery ; because , as I observed ...
... expressions , willing to believe it if he could , is forced to decline the dispute , and leave it in the same uncertainty in which he found it . The story of the two Poets meeting in Delos is a manifest forgery ; because , as I observed ...
Strona 27
... expression that has not an allusion , and a strong one , to some par- ticular passage in that poem . I am afraid this gentleman's modesty made him distrust himself , and too servilely follow this translation , which he quotes in his ...
... expression that has not an allusion , and a strong one , to some par- ticular passage in that poem . I am afraid this gentleman's modesty made him distrust himself , and too servilely follow this translation , which he quotes in his ...
Strona 30
... expression Ma- nilius applies to Hesiod . Bacchus amat colles ( says Virgil ) ; rogavit quos colles Bacchus ama- ret , says the other of our poet , ' he inquired after what hills Bacchus loved . ' I should not have used Mr. Creech and ...
... expression Ma- nilius applies to Hesiod . Bacchus amat colles ( says Virgil ) ; rogavit quos colles Bacchus ama- ret , says the other of our poet , ' he inquired after what hills Bacchus loved . ' I should not have used Mr. Creech and ...
Strona 57
... expression of laying the rudder over the smoke , alludes to the custom of laying it to harden over the smoke , at those times in which they did not use it . Says Grævius on this verse , it was customary to hang the rudders in the smoke ...
... expression of laying the rudder over the smoke , alludes to the custom of laying it to harden over the smoke , at those times in which they did not use it . Says Grævius on this verse , it was customary to hang the rudders in the smoke ...
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Strona 206 - ... a shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Strona 205 - Before their eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Strona 61 - Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices, to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive...
Strona 65 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Strona 183 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as...
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Strona 203 - More lovely, than Pandora, whom the Gods Endow'd with all their gifts, and O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.
Strona 50 - Far does the man all other men excel Who from his wisdom thinks in all things well, Wisely considering, to himself a friend, All for the present best, and for the end. Nor is the man without his share of praise Who well the dictates of the wise obeys ; But he that is not wise himself, nor can Hearken to wisdom, is a useless man.
Strona 122 - Georgics go upon, is I think the meanest and least improving, but the most pleasing and delightful. Precepts of morality, besides the natural corruption of our tempers, which makes us averse to them, are so abstracted from ideas of sense, that they seldom give an opportunity for those beautiful descriptions and images which are the spirit and life of poetry.
Strona 73 - There is a time when forty days they lie, And forty nights, conceal'd from human eye : But in the course of the revolving year, When the swain sharps the scythe, again appear.