Letters to Lord Byron on a Question of Poetical Criticism: With Corrections, to which are ... Added the Letter to Mr. Campbell, as Far as Regards Põetical Criticism, and the Answer to the Writer in the Quarterly Review, Together with an Answer to Some Objections, and Further IllusHurst, Robinson, 1822 - 217 pages |
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... spear ! " I answered , It was one of the least poetical spears in HOMER for a great warrior ; and asked , which he thought more poetical , the spear , or the spear's owner ? He took up " Mrs. UNWIN's needle , " and [ xix ]
... spear ! " I answered , It was one of the least poetical spears in HOMER for a great warrior ; and asked , which he thought more poetical , the spear , or the spear's owner ? He took up " Mrs. UNWIN's needle , " and [ xix ]
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... HOMER . I will only observe , that neither HOMER himself , nor his trans- lator , could make a " silk purse of à sow's ear ! ” your Lordship had only kept this circumstance in recollection , [ 8 ]
... HOMER . I will only observe , that neither HOMER himself , nor his trans- lator , could make a " silk purse of à sow's ear ! ” your Lordship had only kept this circumstance in recollection , [ 8 ]
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... HOMER ? will you admit this ? Then I ask , if so , how comes it to pass , that the greatest poet the world has produced , wrote before the existence of any ARTS , at least in such perfec- tion ? Of rapidity and greatness of events ...
... HOMER ? will you admit this ? Then I ask , if so , how comes it to pass , that the greatest poet the world has produced , wrote before the existence of any ARTS , at least in such perfec- tion ? Of rapidity and greatness of events ...
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... HOMER was the original of the Jupiter of PHIDIAS . What are all the gods of HOMER , * in the de- scription of whom he has so wonderfully excelled , from the Supreme Deity to the Lord of the Ocean , and to the inferior deities of the sea ...
... HOMER was the original of the Jupiter of PHIDIAS . What are all the gods of HOMER , * in the de- scription of whom he has so wonderfully excelled , from the Supreme Deity to the Lord of the Ocean , and to the inferior deities of the sea ...
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... a beautiful building without trees , or trees without buildings ? The bust , and the trees , have led me a little out of my way , for I intended to have connected " The Needle " with HOMER'S SPEAR , WARRIORS , ARMS , HELMETS , BOWS [ 76 ]
... a beautiful building without trees , or trees without buildings ? The bust , and the trees , have led me a little out of my way , for I intended to have connected " The Needle " with HOMER'S SPEAR , WARRIORS , ARMS , HELMETS , BOWS [ 76 ]
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Page 61 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday, — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire, And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire!