 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...perusal of him affects not our minds with such strong emotions as we feel from Homer and Milton ; so that no man of a true poetical spirit, is master of himself...them. Hence, he is a writer fit for universal perusal ; adapted to all ages and stations ; for the old and for the young ; the man of business and the scholar.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...him affects not our / minds with such strong emotions as we feel from \ f Homer and Milton ; so that no man of a true / poetical spirit, is master of himself...\ /, them. Hence, he is a writer fit for universal pe- / v- ~«- \/ rusal ; adapted to all ages and stations ; for the \_XX old and for the young ; the... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...himself while he reads them. Hence, he is a writer fit for universal perusal ; adapted to all ages and stations ; for the old and for the young ; the man of business and the scholar. He who would think the Faery Queen, Palamon and Arcite, the Tempest or Comus, childish and romantic, might relish POPE.... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...Invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes, is of the most animated nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing lives,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...Invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no ra;m of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes, is of the most animating nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing lives,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes, is of the most animated nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing lives,... | |
 | English literature - 1813 - 352 pages
...invention -we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is to forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes is of the most animated nature imaginable ; every thing moves, every thing lives,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes, is of the mo»tx\mated nature imaginable ; every thiffj moves, eveiy thing lives,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 312 pages
...amazing invention we are to attribute that unequaled fire and rapture which is so forcible iu Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes is of the most animated nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing lives,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...Invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes, is of the most animated nature imaginable ; every thing moves, every thing lives,... | |
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It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. 
