The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An essay on ... Homer [by T. Parnell].1720 |
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... fire and rapture , which is fo forcible in Homer , that no man of a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himself while he reads him . What he writes is of the moft animated nature imaginable ; every thing moves , every thing lives , and is ...
... fire and rapture , which is fo forcible in Homer , that no man of a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himself while he reads him . What he writes is of the moft animated nature imaginable ; every thing moves , every thing lives , and is ...
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... fire like a chariot - wheel , by its own rapidity . Exact difpofition , just thought , correct elor cution , polish'd numbers , may have been found in a thousand ; but this poetical fire , this Vivida vis animi , in a very few . Even in ...
... fire like a chariot - wheel , by its own rapidity . Exact difpofition , just thought , correct elor cution , polish'd numbers , may have been found in a thousand ; but this poetical fire , this Vivida vis animi , in a very few . Even in ...
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... deluded in ours by a chimerical infolent hope of rai- fing and improving their author . It is not to be doubted that the fire of the poem is what a tranflator B fhould fhould principally regard , as it is most likely to PREFACE .
... deluded in ours by a chimerical infolent hope of rai- fing and improving their author . It is not to be doubted that the fire of the poem is what a tranflator B fhould fhould principally regard , as it is most likely to PREFACE .
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... fire which makes his chief character : In particular places , where the fenfe can bear any doubt , to follow the strongest and most poetical , as moft agreeing with that character ; to copy him in all the variations of his ftyle , and ...
... fire which makes his chief character : In particular places , where the fenfe can bear any doubt , to follow the strongest and most poetical , as moft agreeing with that character ; to copy him in all the variations of his ftyle , and ...
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... fire under the difadvantages of blindnefs , and the utmoft pover- ty , than any Poet after him in better circumftances ; and that he had an unlimited fenfe of fame ( the at- tendant of noble fpirits ) which prompted him to en- gage in ...
... fire under the difadvantages of blindnefs , and the utmoft pover- ty , than any Poet after him in better circumftances ; and that he had an unlimited fenfe of fame ( the at- tendant of noble fpirits ) which prompted him to en- gage in ...
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Achilles Æneid againſt Agamemnon alfo ancient arms army Atrides battel beauty becauſe call'd caufe Chalcis character chief Chios compariſon defcending defcription defign Euftathius expreffion fable facred faid fame fays fceptre fecond feems feen felf fenfe feveral fhall fhews fhining fhips fhore fhort fhould fide fight fimile fince fingle firft firſt flain fome fometimes fpeech fpirit ftand ftill ftory ftrength fubject fuch Goddeſs Gods Grecian Greece Greeks heav'n Hector Heroes himſelf hoft Homer honour Ibid Idomeneus Iliad Jove juft Jupiter King laft lefs Leo Allatius Madam Dacier manner Menelaus moft moſt muſt Neftor Nireus o'er obferves occafion paffage paffion Pandarus Paris perfons plain pleaſure Plutarch poem Poet poetry pow'r praiſe prefent Priam Prince reafon reft reprefented rifing ſhall ſpeak Spondanus Strab Suidas thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflation Trojan troops Troy Ulyffes uſe verfe Virgil whofe words