 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...weapon ihirfts to drink the Wood of an enemy, and die like,, Yet.hit expreffion is never too big for the elfe can we afcribe that vaft comprehenfion of images of every fort, where we fee each ckciuuftance and individual of nature fummon'd together, by the extent and fecundity of his imagination... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...where he is not fired by the Iliad. If we obferve his defcrtptions, images, and Jitrultfi we fhall find the invention ftill predominant. ,To wha*t elfe...an inftant, and had their impreffions taken off to perfection at • a heat ? Nay, he not only gives us the full profpe&s of things, but feveral unexpected... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...fentirnents where he is not fired by the Iliad. If we obferve his defer fptiom, images, and y/mites, we fhall find the invention ftill predominant. To what elfe...prefented themfelves in an inftant, and had their impreflions taken off to perfection at •a heat ? Nay, he not only gives us the full prof$>ecl:s of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 368 pages
...Jiini/es, we fhall find the invention ftill predomiuam. To what elfe can we afcribe that vaft comprehenflon of images of every fort,' where we fee each circumftance...an inftant, and had their impreffions taken off to perfection at a. heat ? Nay, he not only gives us the full prof|j>e&s of things, but feveral unexpected... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...where he is not fired by the Iliad. If we obferve his defer iptions, images, and Ji~ mi/es, we {hall find the invention ftill predominant. To what elfe...nature fummoned together, by the extent and fecundity t>f his imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, prefented themfelves in an inftant,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...elfe can vve afcribe that vaft fcomprehenfioa of images of every fort, where we fee each circumflance of art, and individual of nature fummoned together,...imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, preferred themfelves in an infant, &nd had their impreffions taken off to perfeftion at a heat ? Nay,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...fentiments where he is not fired by the Iliad* If we obferve his dtjcriftion^ images, and^/fmiles, we (hall find the invention ftill predominant. To what elfe can we afcribe that vaft comprehension of images of every fort, where \ve fee each circumftance of art, and individual of nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...invention ftill predominant. To what elfe can vve afcribe that vail comprehension of images of every N 6 fort, where we fee each circumftance of art, and individual...imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, presented themfelves in an inllant, and had their impreffions taken off to perfection at a heat ? Nay,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...comprehenfion of images of every fort, where we fee each circumilancx of art, and individual of nature fummoncd together by the extent and fecundity of his imagination...which all things in their various views prefented thcmfelvcs in an inAant, and had their impreflions taken off to perfection at a hot? Nay, he not only... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 416 pages
...fentiments where he is not fired by the Iliad. If we obferve his defcriptions, images, and Jtmiles, we fhall find the invention ftill predominant. To what elfe...afcribe that vaft comprehenfion of images of every fort, * I was tolerably certain, as I recollefted no fpecific declaration of this kind in Longinus, that... | |
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... together by the extent and fecundity of his imagination ; to which all things, in their various views, presented themselves in an instant, and had their impressions taken off to perfection at a heat... 
