The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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... Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious employment . No man needs to be so burthened with life as to ...
... Pindar to call " the dream of a shadow . " It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college , or in the bustle of the world , to find useful studies and serious employment . No man needs to be so burthened with life as to ...
Pagina 30
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode ...
... Pindar spoke , but his manner of speaking . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode ...
Pagina 31
... Pindar , observe , that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his para- phrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuit- able to the original , as The table , free ...
... Pindar , observe , that whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his para- phrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuit- able to the original , as The table , free ...
Pagina 33
... How poor to this was Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what antiquity has disposed them to expect , Johnson's Lives . I. 3 will at least see that they are ill - represented COWLEY . 33.
... How poor to this was Pindar's style ! Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what antiquity has disposed them to expect , Johnson's Lives . I. 3 will at least see that they are ill - represented COWLEY . 33.
Pagina 34
... Pindar have , as he observes , very little harmony to a modern ear ; yet , by examining the syllables , we perceive them to be regular , and have reason enough for supposing that the ancient audiences were delighted with the sound . The ...
... Pindar have , as he observes , very little harmony to a modern ear ; yet , by examining the syllables , we perceive them to be regular , and have reason enough for supposing that the ancient audiences were delighted with the sound . The ...
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