The Spectator, Volume 2George Washington Greene J. B. Lippincott Company, 1880 |
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... Homer's Odyssey . ' It is where Sisyphus is represented lifting his stone up the hill , which is no sooner carried to the top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the bottom . This double motion of the stone is admirably described in ...
... Homer's Odyssey . ' It is where Sisyphus is represented lifting his stone up the hill , which is no sooner carried to the top of it , but it immediately tumbles to the bottom . This double motion of the stone is admirably described in ...
Pagina 33
... Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed ; had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the in vesting of Troy , it is manifest that ...
... Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things , as Horace has observed ; had he gone up to Leda's egg , or begun much later , even at the rape of Helen , or the in vesting of Troy , it is manifest that ...
Pagina 34
... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very na- ture of ...
... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time , that great critic and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some measure to the very na- ture of ...
Pagina 37
... Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Æneid were in themselves exceeding short ; but are so beautifully ex- tended and diversified by the invention of episodes ...
... Homer and Virgil have shewn their principal art in this particular ; the action of the Iliad , and that of the Æneid were in themselves exceeding short ; but are so beautifully ex- tended and diversified by the invention of episodes ...
Pagina 38
... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suit- able to no other deity . His princes are as ...
... Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suit- able to no other deity . His princes are as ...
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