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 iv
... those allegorical parts of a poem . view , they are fo perfect in the poetic , that man- blame his machines in a philofophical or religions kind have been ever fince contented to follow them : none have been able to enlarge the fphere ...
... those allegorical parts of a poem . view , they are fo perfect in the poetic , that man- blame his machines in a philofophical or religions kind have been ever fince contented to follow them : none have been able to enlarge the fphere ...
Page viii
... those who fuc- ceeded him . What he has done admitted no in- creafe , it only left room for contraction or regu- lation He fhowed all the ftretch of fancy at once ; and , if he has failed in fome of his flights , it was but because he ...
... those who fuc- ceeded him . What he has done admitted no in- creafe , it only left room for contraction or regu- lation He fhowed all the ftretch of fancy at once ; and , if he has failed in fome of his flights , it was but because he ...
Page ix
... those who have , will fee I have endeavoured at this beauty . Upon the whole , I must confefs myself utterly incapable of doing juftice to Homer . I attempt him in no other hope but that which one may en- tertain without much vanity ...
... those who have , will fee I have endeavoured at this beauty . Upon the whole , I must confefs myself utterly incapable of doing juftice to Homer . I attempt him in no other hope but that which one may en- tertain without much vanity ...
Page 12
... Those who on Peteon or Ilefion dwell , Or Harma where Apollo's prophet fell ; Heleon and Hyle , which the fprings o'erflow ; And Medeon lofty , and Ocalea low ; Or in the meads of Haliartus ftray , Or Thefpis facred to the God of Day ...
... Those who on Peteon or Ilefion dwell , Or Harma where Apollo's prophet fell ; Heleon and Hyle , which the fprings o'erflow ; And Medeon lofty , and Ocalea low ; Or in the meads of Haliartus ftray , Or Thefpis facred to the God of Day ...
Page 13
... those Whom Lacedæmon's lofty hills enclose : Or Meffe's towers for filver doves renown'd , Amycia , Laas , Augia's happy ground , And those whom Oetylos ' low walls contain , And Helos , on the margin of the main : Thefe , o'er the ...
... those Whom Lacedæmon's lofty hills enclose : Or Meffe's towers for filver doves renown'd , Amycia , Laas , Augia's happy ground , And those whom Oetylos ' low walls contain , And Helos , on the margin of the main : Thefe , o'er the ...
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