 Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only Poet who had found out Living Words ; there are in him more daring Figures and Metaphors than in any good Author whatever. An Arrow is impatient to be on the Wing, a Weapon thirsts to drink the Blood of an...  Translation of the Iliad of Homer - Page ixby Homer, Alexander Pope - 1851 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Heinrich Reichardt - 1885 - 106 pages
...the village. (Too great). Victor Hugo in "Les feuilles d'automne", calls nature, "a large piano." <s weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and...the sense, but justly great in proportion to it." 3. Superabundance or Overcharging, a fault that occurs chiefly in Spanish poetry. By too many types... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 pages
...Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good...the sense, but justly great in proportion to it." --/vVW— A Style Of From a Letter to Walsh. Sound. °ct- «i 1706. " T IT is not enough that nothing... | |
 | Robert Somerville Radford - 1901 - 60 pages
...'Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out living woтds ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good...whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, and a weapon thiтsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like'. Similarly Gladstone, Studies on... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pages
...found out living words ; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good anthor whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing,...enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too hig for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it. It is the sentiment that swells and fills... | |
 | Homer - 1909 - 630 pages
...Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out living words ; there are in bim more daring figures and metaphors than in any good...An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirst to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too big for the sense.,... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 pages
...Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only Poet who had found out Living Words ; there are in him more daring Figures and Metaphors than in any good...for the Sense, but justly great in proportion to it : 'Tis the Sentiment that swells and fills out the Diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 pages
...Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only Poet who had found out Living Words; there are in him more daring Figures and Metaphors than in any good...for the Sense, but justly great in proportion to it : Tis the Sentiment that swells and fills out the Diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 pages
...himself while he reads him" (Poems, vol. Vn, p. 4). Homer indeed saw the animation of the material world ("An Arrow is impatient to be on the Wing, a Weapon thirsts to drink the Blood of an Enemy" [Poems, vol. vn, p. 10]), but by "Nature" Pope primarily means "how the world is" or "how human beings... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2006 - 262 pages
...Spirit is Master of himself while he reads him'.36 Homer indeed saw the animation of the material world ('An Arrow is impatient to be on the Wing, a Weapon thirsts to drink the Blood of an Enemy'),37 but by 'Nature' Pope primarily means 'how the world is' or 'how human beings behave': the... | |
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