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... tolerable idea of the entertainment , we received from it on the spot , I must acknowledge , that those difficulties may , with great juftice , be charged to my own account , rather than than to that of my fubject ; for they do TO THE.
... tolerable idea of the entertainment , we received from it on the spot , I must acknowledge , that those difficulties may , with great juftice , be charged to my own account , rather than than to that of my fubject ; for they do TO THE.
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... must still gain ground , in proportion to our di- stance from , and ignorance of , the times , which the Poet describes . For , fuppofing their merit equal , that Poem must longeft furvive , which abounds moft in the great tragic ...
... must still gain ground , in proportion to our di- stance from , and ignorance of , the times , which the Poet describes . For , fuppofing their merit equal , that Poem must longeft furvive , which abounds moft in the great tragic ...
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... must have been moft generally relished , by the age and country , to which it was addreffed ; and that , if it has contributed lefs to the Author's fame in later times , it is because the peculiar precifion , and closeness of its minute ...
... must have been moft generally relished , by the age and country , to which it was addreffed ; and that , if it has contributed lefs to the Author's fame in later times , it is because the peculiar precifion , and closeness of its minute ...
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... must look for it in Fon- taine : in the mean time , I fhall refer him to the annexed note for this curious history , and the authority , upon which it is founded . His * Without vouching for the authenticity of those letters of Æschi ...
... must look for it in Fon- taine : in the mean time , I fhall refer him to the annexed note for this curious history , and the authority , upon which it is founded . His * Without vouching for the authenticity of those letters of Æschi ...
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... must form the back ground , thence the tempest is to burst on the Ægean sea , which has its proper ftormy colouring ; while the Ionian shore covered with fea - wreck , by a fuc- ceffion of waves breaking on its beach , will make the ...
... must form the back ground , thence the tempest is to burst on the Ægean sea , which has its proper ftormy colouring ; while the Ionian shore covered with fea - wreck , by a fuc- ceffion of waves breaking on its beach , will make the ...
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Ægean Æneas Æneid Afiatic alſo ancient appear arts beauties becauſe beſt character circumftances coaft coaſt compofition confider confideration confiftence conjecture courſe deſcribed deſcription diftinct diſcover diſtance diſtinguiſhed Egypt eſtabliſhed expreffion faid fame favourable feems fhall fhew fhort fide fince firft firſt fituation fociety fome ftate ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuppofe furniſhed genius Greece Greek Herodotus himſelf hiſtory Homer idea Iliad and Odyffey inftances intereſting Ionian iſland juftice language leaſt lefs leſs manners meaſure Menelaus moft moſt muft muſt nature navigation neceffary Nile obfervation occafion original paffage paffions Palmyra perfons Pharos Pherecyde Poem Poet Poet's poetical Poetry prefent preſerved purpoſe Reader reaſon reſpect Roman ſay Scamander ſcene ſea ſee ſeems ſeen ſeveral ſhall ſhip ſhould ſome ſpot ſtate ſtill Strabo ſuppoſe Syros theſe thofe thoſe Thrace tion tranflation Troade Trojan Trojan war Troy Ulyffes uſe Virgil voyage wind writing Zephyrus
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Page 344 - Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For Lust of Fame I should not vainly dare , In fighting Fields, nor urge thy Soul to War. But since, alas! ignoble Age must come, Disease, and Death's inexorable Doom; The Life which others pay, let us bestow, And give to Fame what we to Nature owe; Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us Glory gain, or Glory give!
Page vii - so languid, that I proposed postponing my business for another time ; but he insisted that I should stay, saying, it could not prolong his life to neglect his duty ; and repeating the...
Page 161 - half christen" him: "most of Homer's heroes would, in the present age, be capitally convicted, in any country in Europe, on the Poet's evidence." The contrast and the coincidence between Wood and Blackwell is symptomatic of the larger course of Romantic Hellenism: one centered his enquiry around empirical observation while the other observed Greece from the perspective of Aberdeen; yet the joint effect of their writings was to reinterpret the...
Page 80 - And fair vEgina, circled by the main;" the defcription (though not Homer's, and merely introduced to help out the rhyme and meafure) has probably been always true; but when unauthorifed, and without confulting his author, he enriches the picture with the fluctuating and tranfitory circumftances of hufbandry, it is lefs excufable. Thus when he informs us, that the following two places were famous
Page 50 - ... rather convince us of his ignorance upon that head ; and that the ocean in his time had a very different meaning, from that which it now conveys. Nor am I furprifed that, fo much later, Herodotus mould treat this idea of an ocean, where the fun rifes, as a poetical fiction.
Page vii - Whom thofe that envy, dare not imitate. Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no lefs the fearful than the brave, For luft of fame I fhould not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy foul to war.
Page vii - But fince, alas! ignoble age muft come, Difeafe, and death's inexorable doom ; The life which others pay, let us beftow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; , .. , Brave tho' we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give.
Page 80 - Mycaleflia (for fo the tranflator was obliged to write it in order to make out the line) owes both to rhyme and meafure her piny plain in the fecond. When the additional epithets of the Tranflator are defcriptive of fome permanent circumftance, as in thofe lines ; " From high Troezene and Mafeta's plain, " And fair vEgina, circled by the main...
Page 79 - Greece in that early period," has of courfe fuffered by fuch liberties a ; and, when every defcriptive epithet in Homer mould have been religioufly preferved, Mr. Pope's alterations have produced a new map of his own, and deprived us of that merit of the original which he called upon us to admire. Thus the Grsea and fpacious Mycaleflus of Homer become by tranflation, " Grxa near the main, " And Mycaleflia's ample piny plain.