LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 34
... Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision : but he has been so lavish of his poetical ...
... Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision : but he has been so lavish of his poetical ...
Page 85
... Iliad has gratified succeeding ages with a little knowledge of him- self ? Perhaps no passages are more frequently or more attentively read than those extrinsic paragraphs ; and since the end of poetry is pleasure , that can- not be ...
... Iliad has gratified succeeding ages with a little knowledge of him- self ? Perhaps no passages are more frequently or more attentively read than those extrinsic paragraphs ; and since the end of poetry is pleasure , that can- not be ...
Page 190
... Iliad in English , intended as a speci- men of a version of the whole . Considering into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice that this project went no further . The time was now at hand which was put an end to ...
... Iliad in English , intended as a speci- men of a version of the whole . Considering into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice that this project went no further . The time was now at hand which was put an end to ...
Page 202
... Iliad , some years afterwards , he departed from his own decision , and translated into rhyme . When he has any objection to obviate , or any licence to defend , he is not very scrupulous about what he asserts , nor very cautious , if ...
... Iliad , some years afterwards , he departed from his own decision , and translated into rhyme . When he has any objection to obviate , or any licence to defend , he is not very scrupulous about what he asserts , nor very cautious , if ...
Page 203
... Iliad , without knowing what was in the second . It will be difficult to prove that Dryden ever made any great advances in literature . As having distinguished himself at Westminster under the tuition of Busby , who advanced his ...
... Iliad , without knowing what was in the second . It will be difficult to prove that Dryden ever made any great advances in literature . As having distinguished himself at Westminster under the tuition of Busby , who advanced his ...
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