Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. Select British Classics - Page 821803Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...thoughts are expressed, without violence to the language. ' Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the • same word, and all unusual, though riot ungraminatical, structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. Idler, vol. 2, p. 136.... | |
| Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...debate runs high, till they are reconciled by ihe address of Vulcan. THE ILIA D. BOOK I. A CHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 410 pages
...Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the sama word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical structure...of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Aehilla? wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...the construction of $he verse, that verse is no longer easy, Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of...first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licenses which an easy writer, must decline : Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration • Sir Joshua Reynolds. of the same word, and all unusual though not ungrammatical...Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...word, and all unusual though not ungramxj*hatical structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy P poetry. The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples...Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, he tv'nlji goddess, sing ; The \vruth which liurl'd to P uto's gloomy reign The souls of... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 352 pages
...The scene lies in the Grecian camp, then changes to Chrysa, and lastly to Olympus. THE ILIAD. BOOK I. ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reigu The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...the construction of the verse, that verse is no longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of...speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The first b'nes of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Achilles'... | |
| George Crabb - English language - 1818 - 918 pages
...their secret rwenlmenU, or to seek adequate reparations for the damages they bare sustained. STBELK. Achilles' wrath to Greece, the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd. Heavenly Goddess sing. Pora. Тле prophet spoke : when with a gloomy frown The monarch started from hie shining throne;... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...the construction of the verse, that verse is no longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of...wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, hcav'nly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely... | |
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