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 chiefs untimely slain. Works - Page 272by Samuel Johnson - 1811Full view - About this book
| English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...logger easy. Any epithet which can be ejected wi.hout diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy re ign The souls of mighty... | |
| 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
...longer easy, Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...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
...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...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 mighty chiefs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...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'... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...longer easy. Any epithet • which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heav'nly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty... | |
| English literature - 1915 - 632 pages
...'Actuate a\yi tOtlKev. Their simplicity is obvious, and one can imagine with what ease Mr Pope wrote : ' Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, Heavenly Goddess, sing,' or how, when he had once got his metre, these lines flowed from Mr Way's pen : ' The wrath of Achilles... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 pages
...Sir Joshua Reynolds. C. which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurfd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical,...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... | |
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