Lives of the English Poets |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 19
Page 19
... Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : * a quo ceu .. -a quo ceu fonte perenni ' Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . ' From whom , as from an inexhaustible spring , the mouths of ...
... Homer's Circe ; but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : * a quo ceu .. -a quo ceu fonte perenni ' Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . ' From whom , as from an inexhaustible spring , the mouths of ...
Page 215
... Homer and Virgil , the discriminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendor of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of ...
... Homer and Virgil , the discriminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendor of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of ...
Page 374
... Homer . Though the greatest of them are certainly those of the Invention and Design , which are not all confined to the language : for the distinguishing excellences of Homer are ( by the consent of the best criticks of all nations ) ...
... Homer . Though the greatest of them are certainly those of the Invention and Design , which are not all confined to the language : for the distinguishing excellences of Homer are ( by the consent of the best criticks of all nations ) ...
Contents
Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote