An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Iliad * ; where it ought not to have been admitted : and which Dryden has but rarely used in his Virgil . Our author feldom writes many lines toge- ther without an antithefis . It must be allowed fometimes to add ftrength to a fentiment ...
... Iliad * ; where it ought not to have been admitted : and which Dryden has but rarely used in his Virgil . Our author feldom writes many lines toge- ther without an antithefis . It must be allowed fometimes to add ftrength to a fentiment ...
Page 159
... , & pedibus qui fpargat arenam . Alluding to the prizes that Achilles beftows in the games of Homer . Iliad . 23. b . Ver . 67 . For For furely that vice deferves the keenest invective , which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 159 .
... , & pedibus qui fpargat arenam . Alluding to the prizes that Achilles beftows in the games of Homer . Iliad . 23. b . Ver . 67 . For For furely that vice deferves the keenest invective , which AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 159 .
Page 166
... ( Iliad , b . 13. v . 12. ) αψε επ ' ακροτάτης κορυφής Σαμε ύληςσσης , Θρηικίης * ενθεν γαρ εφαίνετο πάσα μεν ίδη , Φαίνετο δε Πριάμοιο πολις , και νηες Αχαιών . THOSE who are fond of generalities , may think the number of natural ...
... ( Iliad , b . 13. v . 12. ) αψε επ ' ακροτάτης κορυφής Σαμε ύληςσσης , Θρηικίης * ενθεν γαρ εφαίνετο πάσα μεν ίδη , Φαίνετο δε Πριάμοιο πολις , και νηες Αχαιών . THOSE who are fond of generalities , may think the number of natural ...
Page 167
Joseph Warton. fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad and the Odyffey might be quoted as examples of this way of writing . So dif- ferent from the unfinished , half - formed figures , prefented to us by many modern writers ...
Joseph Warton. fo dramatic , and fo interefting . Half the Iliad and the Odyffey might be quoted as examples of this way of writing . So dif- ferent from the unfinished , half - formed figures , prefented to us by many modern writers ...
Page 235
... Iliad . The real faults of that translation are of a different kind , They are fuch , as remind us of Nero's gilding a brazen ftatue of Alexander the Great , caft by Lyfippus . 14 . down to piddling Tibalds . YET this very dull and ...
... Iliad . The real faults of that translation are of a different kind , They are fuch , as remind us of Nero's gilding a brazen ftatue of Alexander the Great , caft by Lyfippus . 14 . down to piddling Tibalds . YET this very dull and ...
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