An Essay on Epic Poetry: In Five Epistles to the Revd. Mr. Mason. With Notes ... |
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... Bard , abhorring bafe controul , Seeks the just Critic of congenial foul . Say ! MASON , Judge and Mafter of the Lyre ! Harmonious Chief of Britain's living Choir , * Ver . 7. See NOTE I. * 5 IO B 2 Say ! Say ! wilt Thou liften to his ...
... Bard , abhorring bafe controul , Seeks the just Critic of congenial foul . Say ! MASON , Judge and Mafter of the Lyre ! Harmonious Chief of Britain's living Choir , * Ver . 7. See NOTE I. * 5 IO B 2 Say ! Say ! wilt Thou liften to his ...
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... Bard from that oppressive awe , Which feels Opinion's rule as Reason's law , And from his spirit bid vain fears depart , Of weaken'd Nature and exhaufted Art ! 15 % 20 255 30 Phantoms that literary fpleen conceives ! Dullness adopts ...
... Bard from that oppressive awe , Which feels Opinion's rule as Reason's law , And from his spirit bid vain fears depart , Of weaken'd Nature and exhaufted Art ! 15 % 20 255 30 Phantoms that literary fpleen conceives ! Dullness adopts ...
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... Bards of ancient time , with genius fraught , What mind can trace how thought engender'd thought , How little hints awak ... Bard's ideal picture draws , 230 * Ver . 231. See NOTE IV . And And wifely tells us , that his Song arose As [ 13 ]
... Bards of ancient time , with genius fraught , What mind can trace how thought engender'd thought , How little hints awak ... Bard's ideal picture draws , 230 * Ver . 231. See NOTE IV . And And wifely tells us , that his Song arose As [ 13 ]
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... Bard with impious guilt . While fuch Dictators their vain efforts wafte * In the dark visions of diftemper'd Taste , Let us that pleasing , happier light pursue , Which beams benignant from the milder few * Ver . 244. See NOTE V. I ...
... Bard with impious guilt . While fuch Dictators their vain efforts wafte * In the dark visions of diftemper'd Taste , Let us that pleasing , happier light pursue , Which beams benignant from the milder few * Ver . 244. See NOTE V. I ...
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... Bard who loves thy mental fire , Who to thy fame attun'd his early lyre , Learn from thy Genius , when dull Fops decide , So to refute their fyftematic pride ! 330 Let him , at leaft , fucceeding Poets warn To view the Pedant's lore ...
... Bard who loves thy mental fire , Who to thy fame attun'd his early lyre , Learn from thy Genius , when dull Fops decide , So to refute their fyftematic pride ! 330 Let him , at leaft , fucceeding Poets warn To view the Pedant's lore ...
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Æneid afferts againſt Araucanians Bard bleft Boccacio breaſt CANTO Caupolican celebrated Chieftains cloſe compofition confiderable courſe Critic Dante darkneſs death defign defire deſcribed difplayed diſcover Engliſh Epic poem Epic poetry EPISTLE Ercilla eſcape eyes faid fame Fancy Fancy's fate fays feems fhall fingular fink fire firft firſt foldiers fome fond foon foul fplendid ftill ftrikes fubject fublime fuch fufficiently fuperior fuppofed Genius heart Heroic herſelf himſelf Homer honour Indian juft juſt Lantaro laſt Lope de Vega Lucan lyre mind moft moſt Mufe muft Muſe muſt noble NOTE numbers o'er occafion paffage paffed paffion Petrarch pleaſe pleaſure Poet poetical poetry praiſe prefent pride purſue raiſe reafon ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome Spaniards Spaniſh ſpeak ſpirit ſpread ſtate ſtill ſuch thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tucapel uſe verfe Verſe Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe William of Apulia
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Page 194 - Caron dimonio con occhi di bragia Loro accennando tutte le raccoglie ; Batte col remo qualunque s
Page 134 - ... that philosophical, that geometrical, and systematical spirit so much in vogue, which has spread itself from the sciences even into polite literature, by consulting only reason, has not diminished and destroyed sentiment ; and made our poets write from and to the head, rather than the heart...
Page 192 - Ed ecco verso noi venir per nave Un vecchio, bianco per antico pelo, Gridando: Guai a voi, anime prave: Non isperate mai veder lo cielo: l' vegno per menarvi all' altra riva Nelle tenebre eterne, in caldo e in gielo. E tu, che se' costì, anima viva, Partiti da cotesti che son morti.
Page 92 - And turn'd each fairer image in his brain To blank confusion and her crazy train, 'Twas thine, with constant love, through...
Page 294 - ... late critics have taken with them), I know not what other expedients the epic poet might have...
Page 184 - Di questo impedimento ov' io ti mando, Si che duro giudicio lassù frange. Questa chiese Lucia in suo dimando, K disse: Or abbisogna il tuo fedele Di te, ed io a te lo raccomando. Lucia, nimica -di ciascun crudele, Si mosse, e venne al loco dov
Page 120 - Milton was the emulator of both. He found Homer possessed of the province of MORALITY ; Virgil of POLITICS : and nothing left for him, but that of RELIGION.
Page 172 - Guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle Vestite già de' raggi del pianeta Che mena dritto altrui per ogni calle.
Page 57 - NAVAL POET'S laureate head. Ye Nymphs of Tagus, from your golden cell, That caught the echo of his tuneful...
Page 211 - Voltaire himself and others, but the positive en:husiasm and the omission of any real negative criticism are new. Indeed, after making these statements, Hayley proceeds to translate almost 900 lines of the poem. The Essay on Epic Poetry soon came to be regarded...