The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1813 |
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Page 13
... it heightened the diction , but as it assisted and filled the numbers with greater sound and pomp , and likewise con- duced in some measure to thicken the images . On this last consideration I cannot but attribute these also PREFACE . 13.
... it heightened the diction , but as it assisted and filled the numbers with greater sound and pomp , and likewise con- duced in some measure to thicken the images . On this last consideration I cannot but attribute these also PREFACE . 13.
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... sound , than in any other language of poetry . The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the critics to be copied but faintly by Virgil himself , though they are so just to ascribe it to the nature of the Latin tongue : indeed the Greek ...
... sound , than in any other language of poetry . The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the critics to be copied but faintly by Virgil himself , though they are so just to ascribe it to the nature of the Latin tongue : indeed the Greek ...
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... sound of a trumpet . They roll along as a plentiful river , always in motion , and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of verse , the most rapid , and yet the most smooth imaginable . Thus on whatever side we contemplate ...
... sound of a trumpet . They roll along as a plentiful river , always in motion , and always full ; while we are borne away by a tide of verse , the most rapid , and yet the most smooth imaginable . Thus on whatever side we contemplate ...
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... sound to the sense , and varying it on every new subject . This is indeed one of the most ex- quisite beauties of poetry , and attainable by very few : I know only of Homer eminent for it in the Greek , and Virgil in Latin . I am ...
... sound to the sense , and varying it on every new subject . This is indeed one of the most ex- quisite beauties of poetry , and attainable by very few : I know only of Homer eminent for it in the Greek , and Virgil in Latin . I am ...
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... sound . Meantime the radiant sun , to mortal sight Descending swift , roll'd down the rapid light . Then to their starry domes the gods depart , The shining monuments of Vulcan's art : Jove on his couch reclin'd his awful head , And ...
... sound . Meantime the radiant sun , to mortal sight Descending swift , roll'd down the rapid light . Then to their starry domes the gods depart , The shining monuments of Vulcan's art : Jove on his couch reclin'd his awful head , And ...
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Achilles address'd Æneas Agamemnon Ajax arms Atreus Atrides bands battle beauteous bend beneath blood bold brave brazen breast chariot chief combat command coursers crown'd daring dart descends Diomed divine dreadful E'en Epeians Eurypylus eyes fair falchion fame fate fear field fierce fight fire fix'd flames fleet force fury glory goddess godlike gods Grecian Greece Greeks ground hand haste hear heart Heaven heavenly Hector heroes Homer honours host Idomeneus ILIAD Ilion's immortal javelin Jove Jove's king lance Lycian maid martial mighty monarch Nestor night numbers o'er Pallas pass'd Patroclus Phrygian pierc'd plain press'd Priam's prince prize proud Pylian race rage sacred seiz'd shade shakes shield shining ships shore sire skies slain soul spear spoke stand steeds stern Sthenelus stood swift thee thine thou Thracian throne thunder toils trembling Trojan troops Troy Troy's Tydeus Tydides Ulysses Virgil walls warrior woes wound youth
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Page 34 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 23 - O thou ! whose glory fills th' ethereal throne, And all ye deathless powers ! protect my son ! Grant him, like me, to purchase just renown, To guard the Trojans, to defend the crown ; Against his country's foes the war to wage, And rise, the Hector of the future age ! So when, triumphant from successful toils, Of heroes slain he bears the reeking spoils, Whole hosts may hail him with deserv'd acclaim, And say, This chief transcends his father's fame : While, pleas'd amidst the general shouts of Troy,...
Page 4 - It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.
Page 16 - ... him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we are to think...
Page 24 - Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Page 10 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these when those are pass'd away.
Page 7 - Nor is it only in the main design that they have been unable to add to his invention, but they have followed him in every episode and part of story. If he has given a regular catalogue of an army, they all draw up their forces in the same order.
Page 39 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Page 3 - And perhaps the reason why common critics are inclined to prefer a judicious and methodical genius to a great and fruitful one, is, because they find it easier for themselves to pursue their observations through an uniform and bounded walk of art, than to comprehend the vast and various extent of nature.
Page 22 - Priam's hoary hairs defiled with gore, Not all my brothers gasping on the shore ; As thine, Andromache ! thy griefs I dread ; I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led...