A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey. West's Pindar. Dryden's Virgil. Persius & Juvenal. Pitt's Aeneid. Rowe's LucanJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1792 |
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Page vi
... fome letters with the licence of poetry . Thus his meafures , inftead of being fetters to his fenfe , were always in readiness to run along with the warmth of his rapture , and even to give a farther repre- fentation of his notions , in ...
... fome letters with the licence of poetry . Thus his meafures , inftead of being fetters to his fenfe , were always in readiness to run along with the warmth of his rapture , and even to give a farther repre- fentation of his notions , in ...
Page viii
... fome of his tranf- lators have fwelled into fuftain , in a proud confi- dence of the fublime ; others funk into flatnefs , in a cold and timorous notion of fimplicity . Me- thinks I fee thefe different followers of Homer , fome fweating ...
... fome of his tranf- lators have fwelled into fuftain , in a proud confi- dence of the fublime ; others funk into flatnefs , in a cold and timorous notion of fimplicity . Me- thinks I fee thefe different followers of Homer , fome fweating ...
Page x
... fome places not truly interpreted the fenfe , or preferved the antiquities , it ought to be excufed on account of the hafte he was obliged to write in . He feems to have had too much regard to Chapman , whofe words he fometimes copies ...
... fome places not truly interpreted the fenfe , or preferved the antiquities , it ought to be excufed on account of the hafte he was obliged to write in . He feems to have had too much regard to Chapman , whofe words he fometimes copies ...
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... fome prophet , or fome facred fage , Explore the caufe of great Apollo's rage ; Or learn the wafteful vengeance to remove , By myftic dreams , for dreams defcend from Jove . If broken vows this heavy curfe have laid , Let altars ímoke ...
... fome prophet , or fome facred fage , Explore the caufe of great Apollo's rage ; Or learn the wafteful vengeance to remove , By myftic dreams , for dreams defcend from Jove . If broken vows this heavy curfe have laid , Let altars ímoke ...
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... fome valiant leader's prize ? Or , if thy heart to generous love be led , Some captive fair , to blefs thy kingly bed ? Whate'er our matter craves , fubmit we muft , Plagued with his pride , or punish'd for his luft . Oh women of Achaia ...
... fome valiant leader's prize ? Or , if thy heart to generous love be led , Some captive fair , to blefs thy kingly bed ? Whate'er our matter craves , fubmit we muft , Plagued with his pride , or punish'd for his luft . Oh women of Achaia ...
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