Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volumen 57W. Blackwood & Sons, 1845 |
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... Iliad . Flaxman's genius was elevated to the highest point in embodying its events . Epic poets , in subsequent VOL . LVII , NO . CCCLI . times , have done little more than imitate his machinery , copy his cha- racters , adopt . his ...
... Iliad . Flaxman's genius was elevated to the highest point in embodying its events . Epic poets , in subsequent VOL . LVII , NO . CCCLI . times , have done little more than imitate his machinery , copy his cha- racters , adopt . his ...
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... Iliad . No writer in modern times has equalled the wide - spread fame of the Grecian bard ; but it may be doubted whether , in the realms of thought , and in sway over the reflecting world , the influence of DANTE has not been almost as ...
... Iliad . No writer in modern times has equalled the wide - spread fame of the Grecian bard ; but it may be doubted whether , in the realms of thought , and in sway over the reflecting world , the influence of DANTE has not been almost as ...
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... Iliad , the scholar replied , “ You have written a pretty book , Mr Pope ; but you must not call it Homer . " Bentley was right . With all its pomp of language and melody of versifica- tion , its richness of imagery and mag- nificence ...
... Iliad , the scholar replied , “ You have written a pretty book , Mr Pope ; but you must not call it Homer . " Bentley was right . With all its pomp of language and melody of versifica- tion , its richness of imagery and mag- nificence ...
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... Iliad ; and there is nothing in the latter poem of equal length , which will bear any comparison with the exquisite picture of the primeval innocence of our First Parents in his fourth book . Nevertheless , the Iliad is a more ...
... Iliad ; and there is nothing in the latter poem of equal length , which will bear any comparison with the exquisite picture of the primeval innocence of our First Parents in his fourth book . Nevertheless , the Iliad is a more ...
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... Iliad is the continued and vehement action which is maintained . The attention is sel- dom allowed to flag . Either in the council of the gods , the assembly of the Grecian or Trojan chiefs , or the contest of the leaders on the field ...
... Iliad is the continued and vehement action which is maintained . The attention is sel- dom allowed to flag . Either in the council of the gods , the assembly of the Grecian or Trojan chiefs , or the contest of the leaders on the field ...
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Página 126 - For not to think of what I needs must feel But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan; Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 386 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Página 528 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 124 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 503 - The third way is that of imitation, where the translator (if now he has not lost that name) assumes the liberty, not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion; and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the groundwork, as he pleases.
Página 388 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Página 271 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Página 362 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Página 614 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Página 391 - Be Homer's works your study and delight, Read them by day, and meditate by night; Thence form your judgment, thence your maxims bring, And trace the Muses upward to their spring.