| Joseph William Moss - 1825 - 654 σελίδες
...contributed to cover his defects, is a daring fiery spirit that animates this translation, which is sometimes like what one might imagine Homer himself would have writ before he arrived at years of discretion." The Odyssey followed shortly after, in folio, dedicated to the Earl of Somerset, and afterwards the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 σελίδες
...half the Iliad in less than fifteen weeks, shows with what negligence his version was performed. But i Hobbes has given us a correct explanation of the sense in general ; but for particulars and circumstances... | |
| Francis Grose, Samuel Pegge - 1839 - 262 σελίδες
...never translated any passage till he read his version." — J}r. Johnson. " He covers his defects with a daring, fiery spirit, that animates his translation,...something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived at years of discretion." — Pope. " Chapman's translation, with all... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1839 - 542 σελίδες
...subsequently added. Pope, after censuring the haste, negligence, and fustian language of Chapman, observes " that which is to be allowed him, and which very much contributed to cover his defects, is a free daring spirit that animates his translation, which is something like what one might imagine Homer... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1839 - 352 σελίδες
...subsequently added. Pope, after censuring the haste, negligence, and fustian language of Chapman, observes "that which is to be allowed him, and which very much contributed to cover his delects, is a free daring spirit that animates his translation, which is something like what one might... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1840 - 572 σελίδες
...Chapman's Homer without a degree of transport. Pope is of opinion, that Chapman covers his defects " by a daring fiery spirit that animates his translation,...something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived to years of discretion." But his fire is too frequently darkened by... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1840 - 550 σελίδες
...Chapman's Homer without a degree of transport. Pope is of opinion, that Chapman covers his defects " by a daring fiery spirit that animates his translation,...something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived to years of discretion." But his fire is too frequently darkened by... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1843 - 608 σελίδες
...which is to be allowed him, and which very much contributed to cover his defects, is a free daring spirit that animates his translation, which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself • Morley's Musical Airs, 1594, and f Warton, chap, liv., has gone very another collection in 1 597,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 σελίδες
...reader. — Hist. Eng. Poet. iv. 272. In the preface to his own Iliad Pope has allowed to Chapman " a daring fiery spirit that animates his translation,...something like what one might imagine Homer himself might have writ before he arrived to years of discretion." Dryden has told us also that Waller used... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 σελίδες
...which Pope acknowledges to be animated by "a darling fiery spirit, something," he is pleased to add, " like what one might imagine Homer himself would have writ before he arrived at years of discretion,") exclaims, with great fervour and sweetness of expression, in a copy of original verses which he has... | |
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