The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 6
... Pindar to call the " dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a col- lege , or in the buftle of the world , to find , useful ftudies and ferious employment . No man needs to be fo burthened with life as to ...
... Pindar to call the " dream of a fhadow . " It is furely not difficult , in the folitude of a col- lege , or in the buftle of the world , to find , useful ftudies and ferious employment . No man needs to be fo burthened with life as to ...
Pàgina 46
... Pindar fpoke , but his manner of Speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expreffions , nor much to his fentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
... Pindar fpoke , but his manner of Speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expreffions , nor much to his fentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympick Ode ...
Pàgina 47
... Pindar is indeed not every where equally preferved . The following pretty lines are not fuch as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's fon , If in Olympus ' top , where thou Sitt'ft to behold thy facred fhow , If in Alpheus ...
... Pindar is indeed not every where equally preferved . The following pretty lines are not fuch as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's fon , If in Olympus ' top , where thou Sitt'ft to behold thy facred fhow , If in Alpheus ...
Pàgina 48
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley choofes his own fubjects , he fometimes rifes to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if fome deficiencies of language be forgiven , his ftrains are fuch as thofe of the Theban Bard were to his ...
... Pindar . In the following odes , where Cowley choofes his own fubjects , he fometimes rifes to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if fome deficiencies of language be forgiven , his ftrains are fuch as thofe of the Theban Bard were to his ...
Pàgina 51
... Pindar's flyle ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Ifthmian or Nemean fongs what Antiquity has difpofed them to expect , will at least fee that they are ill - reprefent- ed by fuch puny poetry ; and all will determine that if ...
... Pindar's flyle ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Ifthmian or Nemean fongs what Antiquity has difpofed them to expect , will at least fee that they are ill - reprefent- ed by fuch puny poetry ; and all will determine that if ...
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