An Essay on Epic Poetry: In Five Epistles to the Revd. Mr. Mason. With Notes ... |
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... design , And fubtle Fancy fpun her variegated line ? Yet fober Critics , of no vulgar note , 225 But fuch as Learning's fons are proud to quote , The progress of Homeric verfe explain , As if their fouls had lodg'd in Homer's brain ...
... design , And fubtle Fancy fpun her variegated line ? Yet fober Critics , of no vulgar note , 225 But fuch as Learning's fons are proud to quote , The progress of Homeric verfe explain , As if their fouls had lodg'd in Homer's brain ...
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... design'd To blefs the earth , and humanize mankind . Where'er that Parent of engaging thought , Warm Senfibility , like light , has taught The bright'ning mirror of the mind to fhew Nature's reflected forms in all their glow ; Where in ...
... design'd To blefs the earth , and humanize mankind . Where'er that Parent of engaging thought , Warm Senfibility , like light , has taught The bright'ning mirror of the mind to fhew Nature's reflected forms in all their glow ; Where in ...
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... design he is much less of an original than Camoens or Lucan . But fuch a critical ftatute of limita- tion , if I may call it fo , is not lefs pernicious than abfurd . To dif- figure the fphere of Imagination with thefe capricious and ...
... design he is much less of an original than Camoens or Lucan . But fuch a critical ftatute of limita- tion , if I may call it fo , is not lefs pernicious than abfurd . To dif- figure the fphere of Imagination with thefe capricious and ...
Page 126
... design ? that , instead of being the flow and systematic product of po- litical reasoning , it was the quick and artlefs offspring of a strong and vivifying fancy , which , brooding over the tales of tradition , foon raifed them into ...
... design ? that , instead of being the flow and systematic product of po- litical reasoning , it was the quick and artlefs offspring of a strong and vivifying fancy , which , brooding over the tales of tradition , foon raifed them into ...
Page 137
... design To write receipts how poems may be made . For I think the writer who would condefcend to frame this higher fpe- cies of compofition according to the exact letter of any directions what- ever , may be moft properly referred to ...
... design To write receipts how poems may be made . For I think the writer who would condefcend to frame this higher fpe- cies of compofition according to the exact letter of any directions what- ever , may be moft properly referred to ...
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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...