| Homerus - 1808 - 574 pàgines
...gteatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out Irving words; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in any good anthor whatever. An arrow is impatient to he on the wing, and a weapon thirsts to drink the hlood of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pàgines
...greatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out living words : there are in him more daring figures and metaphors...whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, and a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like ; yet his expression is never too... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pàgines
...nt the only poet who had found out living words: there are in him more daring figures and metaphor» than in any good author whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, and a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like; yet his expression is never too... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pàgines
...greatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out living words; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors...An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too big for the sense,... | |
| 1813 - 352 pàgines
...greatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out ' living words :' there are in him more daring figures and metaphors...arrow is ' impatient ' to be on the wing, a weapon ' thirsts' to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like ; yet his expression is never too hig for the... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pàgines
...greatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found cut living words; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors...whatever. An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, and a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 304 pàgines
...greatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, he was the only poet who had found out 'living words:' there are in him more daring figures and metaphors...arrow is * impatient* to be on the wing, a weapon ' thirsts' to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like; yet his expression is never too hig for the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pàgines
...greatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out living words; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors...An Arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too big for the sense,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 312 pàgines
...poet who had found out ' living words:' there are in him more daring figures and metaphors than in an? good author whatever. An arrow is ' impatient' to be on the wing, a weapon ' thirsts' to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like; yet his expression is never too hig for the... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 pàgines
...greatest spirit. Aristotle had reason to say, He was the only poet who had found out living words; there are in him more daring figures and metaphors...An arrow is impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never -too big for the... | |
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