A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey. West's Pindar. Dryden's Virgil. Persius & Juvenal. Pitt's Aeneid. Rowe's LucanJohn & Arthur Arch, ... and for Bell & Bradfute & I. Mundell & Company, Edinburgh., 1792 |
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Page iii
... whole circle of arts , It is to the strength of this amazing invention and the whole compafs of nature , to fupply his we are to tribute that unequalled fire and rap - maxims and reflections ; all the inward paions ture , which is fo ...
... whole circle of arts , It is to the strength of this amazing invention and the whole compafs of nature , to fupply his we are to tribute that unequalled fire and rap - maxims and reflections ; all the inward paions ture , which is fo ...
Page vi
... whole . We ought to have a cer- tain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to confider him , and in proportion to his de- grec in that we are to admire him . No author or man ...
... whole . We ought to have a cer- tain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to confider him , and in proportion to his de- grec in that we are to admire him . No author or man ...
Page vii
... whole courfe of their parallels , that thefe critics never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft : a confideration which whoever compares thefe two pocts , ought to have always in his eye . Some accufe him for the fame things ...
... whole courfe of their parallels , that thefe critics never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft : a confideration which whoever compares thefe two pocts , ought to have always in his eye . Some accufe him for the fame things ...
Page viii
... whole , that in whatever age Homer had lived , he muft have been the greateft poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of thofe who furpaffed him . In all these objections we fee nothing that con ...
... whole , that in whatever age Homer had lived , he muft have been the greateft poet of his nation , and that he may be faid in this fenfe to be the mafter even of thofe who furpaffed him . In all these objections we fee nothing that con ...
Page ix
... whole , it will be neceffary to avoid that perpetua repetition of the fame epithets which we find in Homer ; and which , though it might be accommodated ( as has been already shown ) to the ear of thofe times , is by no means fo to ours ...
... whole , it will be neceffary to avoid that perpetua repetition of the fame epithets which we find in Homer ; and which , though it might be accommodated ( as has been already shown ) to the ear of thofe times , is by no means fo to ours ...
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