 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...who has a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf, while he reads him. Homer makes you interefted and concerned before you are aware, all at once ; whereas Virgil does it by foft degrees. This, I believe, is what a tranflator of Homer ought principally to imitate ; and it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf, while he reads him, Homer makes you interefted P 3 and and concerned before you are aware, all at once; whereas Virgil does it by foft degrees. This, I believe, is what a tranflator of Homer ought principally to imitate ; and it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf, while he reads him, Homer makes you interefced P 3 and and concerned before you are aware, all at once ; whereas Virgil does it by foft degrees. This, I believe, is what a tranflator of Homer ought principally to imitate ; and it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...has a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf, while he reads him. Homer makes you inte• yefted and concerned before you are aware, all at once; whereas Virgil does it by foft degrees. This, I believe, lieve, is what a tranflator of Homer ought principally to imitate; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...who has a true poetical fpirit is mafter of himfelf, while he reads him. Homer makes you intepefted and concerned before you are aware, all at once; whereas Virgil does it by foft degrees. This, I believe. lieve, is what a tranflator of Homer ought principally to imitate; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...who has a true poetical fpirit is matter of himfelf, while he reads him. Homer makes you interefted and concerned before you are aware, all at once; whereas Virgil does it by foft degrees. This, I believe, lieve, is what a tranflator of Homer ought principally to imitate ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...manners by his words :") and t!.eu in that raptuie and fiie, which carries you away with him, \vith ih.ir wonderful force, that no man who has a true poetical spirit is toaster of himself while he reads him. Homer makes you interested and cono-rned before you are aware,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...manners by his words :) and then in that rapture and fiie, which carries you away with him, with that wonderful force, that no man who has a true poetical...soft degrees. This, I believe, is what a translator of Homer ought principally to imitate; and it is very hard for any translator to come up to it, becausfc... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...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. What he writes, is of the most animated nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing lives, and... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no ra;m of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. What he writes, is of the most animating nature imaginable; every thing moves, every thing lives, and... | |
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... 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. 
