 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical...action. If a council be called, or a battle fought, you are not coldly informed of what was said or done as from a third person ; the reader is hurried out... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1825 - 298 pages
...of this amazing Invention we are to attrihute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is so forcihle in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is...him. What he writes, is of the most animated nature imaginahle ; every thing moves, every thing lives, and is put in action If a council he called, or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...that rapture and fire, which carries you away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man who has a true poetical spirit is master of himself, while he reads him. Homer makes you interested and concerned before you are aware, all at once, whereas Virgil does it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...rapture and fire, which carries you away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man, who has a true poetical spirit, is master of himself, while he reads him. Homer makes you interested and concerned before you are aware, all at once ; whereas, Virgil does it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so th are not coluly informed of what was said or done as from a third person ; the reader is hurried out... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...that rapture and fire which carries yon away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man who has a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. Homer makes you interested and concerned before you are aware, all at once, whereas Virgil does it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...that rapture and fire, which carries you away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man who has to tax an honourable fool, Whose right it is, uncensured, to be Homer makes you interested and concerned before you are aware, all at once, whereas Virgil does it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...that rapture and fire, which carries you away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man who has translation, Homer make! you interested and concerned before you are «ware, all at once, whereas Virgil docs it... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1837 - 474 pages
...strength of his amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which are so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical...he writes is of the most animated nature imaginable ; everything moves, lives, and is put into action. If a council be called or a battle fought, you are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...that rapture and fire which carries you away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man who has lways meet some melancholy in his mirth. They are two noble eff Homer makes you interested and concerned before yon are aware, all at once ; whereas Virgil does it... | |
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It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. 
