The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Bind 2Vernor and Hood; John Walker; Cuthell and Martin; W.J. and J. Richardson; Longman and Rees; R. Lea; and J. and A. Arch. ; T. Maiden, printer, Sherbourn-Lane, 1804 |
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Side 19
Linguá melior ; sed frigida bello DexteraA bold tongue , and a feeble arm , are the qualifications of Drances in Virgil ; as Homer , to express a man both timorous and saucy , makes use of a kind of point , which is very rarely to be ...
Linguá melior ; sed frigida bello DexteraA bold tongue , and a feeble arm , are the qualifications of Drances in Virgil ; as Homer , to express a man both timorous and saucy , makes use of a kind of point , which is very rarely to be ...
Side 64
The beautiful Distich upon Ajar in the foregoing lines , puts me in mind of a description in Homer's Odyssey . It is where Sisyphus is represented lifting his stone up the hill , which is no sooner carried to the top of it , but it ...
The beautiful Distich upon Ajar in the foregoing lines , puts me in mind of a description in Homer's Odyssey . It is where Sisyphus is represented lifting his stone up the hill , which is no sooner carried to the top of it , but it ...
Side 91
Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed : had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the investing of Troy , it is manifest that ...
Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed : had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the investing of Troy , it is manifest that ...
Side 92
Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing . to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though , at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in ...
Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing . to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though , at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in ...
Side 94
Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Encid , were in themselves exceeding short ; but are so beautifully extended and diversified by the invention of episodes ...
Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Encid , were in themselves exceeding short ; but are so beautifully extended and diversified by the invention of episodes ...
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