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" Statius it bursts out in sudden, short, and interrupted flashes: in Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardour by the force of art: in Shakespeare it strikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven: but in Homer, and... "
The Iliad of Homer - Page ix
by Homer - 1796 - 294 pages
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...equal and conftant: In Lucan and Statins, it burlis out in fudden, (hort, and interrupted flafhes : In Milton, it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardor by the force of art: In Skaktfptar, it ftrikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven : But in Homer, and...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...and Statius, it burfts out in fudden, fhort, and interrupted flames : In Milton it glows like a A a 4 furnace kept up to an uncommon ardor by the force of art : In Shakefpear, it (bikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven : But in Homer and in him only, it...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 7

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...glbws like a furnace kept up'to'aif nocommon' ardbr by the force of art : In Shakefpear, it ftrikef before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven : But in Homer and in him only, it barns every where clearly, and every where'irrefiftibly. I fhall here endeavour to mow, how this vaft...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...equal and conftant : in Lucan and Statius, it burfts out in fuddcn, fhort, and interrupted flafhes: Ift Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardor by the forceof art : In Shakefpear, it ftrikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven: But...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 35

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 462 pages
...equal and conftanti in Lucan and Statins, it burfts out in fudden, fhort, and interrupted flatties i in Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardor by the force of art i in Shakefpeare, it ftrikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven i but in Homer,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Miscellaneous ...

Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...equal and conftant : In Lucan and Statius, it burfts out in fudden* Ihort, and interrupted flafhes : In Milton it glows like a. furnace kept up to an uncommon...we are aware* like an accidental fire from heaven : Cut in Homer, and in him only, it burns every where ckarly, and everywhere irrefutibly. , I mall...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...equal and confiant : in Lucan and Statius, it burib out in fudden, ihort, and interrupted flaihes: in Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardor by the force of art : in Shakefpeare, it ftrikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven : but in Homer, and...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...equal and conftant ; in Lucan and S'atms, it burfts out in fudden, fliort, and intcnaj.'ed Halhes : in Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardour by the force of art : in Shakfpeare it ftrikes before we are aware like an accidental fire from...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 12

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...equal and conflant ; in Lucan and Statius, it burfts out in fudden, fiiort, and interrupted flalhcs: in Milton it glows like a furnace kept up to an uncommon ardour by the force of art : in Shakfpeare it ftrikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 pages
...improvements of the Epic at an end." A cruel fentencc indeed, and a very fevere ftatute of I Limitation ! nace kept up to an uncommon ardor by the force of art : in Shakefpeare, it ftrikes before we are aware, like an accidental fire from heaven : but in Homer, and...
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