The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen 35Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having contracted it . For when the mode of learning changed in following ages , and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it ...
... head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having contracted it . For when the mode of learning changed in following ages , and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it ...
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... head , but the finest ear in the world . This is fo great a truth , that whoever will but confult the tune of his verses , even without understanding them ( with the fame fort of diligence as we daily fee practifed in the cafe of ...
... head , but the finest ear in the world . This is fo great a truth , that whoever will but confult the tune of his verses , even without understanding them ( with the fame fort of diligence as we daily fee practifed in the cafe of ...
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... head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having contracted it . For when the mode of learning changed in following ages , and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it ...
... head , are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle , but for their judgment in having contracted it . For when the mode of learning changed in following ages , and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it ...
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... heads , I have no way derogated from his character . Nothing is more abfurd or endless , than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particu- lar paffages in them , and forming a judgment from thence of their ...
... heads , I have no way derogated from his character . Nothing is more abfurd or endless , than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particu- lar paffages in them , and forming a judgment from thence of their ...
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... head , but the finest ear in the world . This is fo great a truth , that whoever will but confult the tune of his verses , even without understanding them ( with the fame fort of diligence as we daily fee practifed in the cafe of ...
... head , but the finest ear in the world . This is fo great a truth , that whoever will but confult the tune of his verses , even without understanding them ( with the fame fort of diligence as we daily fee practifed in the cafe of ...
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Página 1 - Thus his measures, instead of being fetters to his sense, were always in readiness to run along with the warmth of his rapture, and even to give a farther representation of his notions, in the correspondence of their sounds to what they signified.
Página 149 - 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 past away.
Página 9 - I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned.
Página 8 - I must confess myself utterly incapable of doing justice to Homer. I attempt him in no other hope, but that which one may entertain without much vanity, of giving a more tolerable copy of him than any entire...
Página 17 - Tis ours the chance of fighting fields to try, Thine to look on, and bid the valiant die. So much 'tis safer through the camp to go, And rob a subject, than despoil a foe.
Página 123 - So spoke the god who darts celestial fires: He dreads his fury, and some steps retires. Then Phoebus bore the chief of Venus...
Página 6 - When we read Homer, we ought to reflect that we are reading the...
Página 3 - We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...
Página 7 - Homer, and which, though it might be accommodated (as has been already shewn) to the ear of those times, is by no means so to ours: but one may wait for opportunities of placing them, where they derive an additional beauty from the occasions on which they are employed ; and in doing this properly, a translator may at once shew his fancy and his judgment.