The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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Page 74
... poets delighted to represent on the stage . He was called in derision by his contemporaries ' Agamemnon ' ; nor were his fortunes less high or their catas- trophe less appalling than that of the King of Mycenæ , ' lord of Argos and the ...
... poets delighted to represent on the stage . He was called in derision by his contemporaries ' Agamemnon ' ; nor were his fortunes less high or their catas- trophe less appalling than that of the King of Mycenæ , ' lord of Argos and the ...
Page 90
... poets , and divines have , in general , exhausted erudition and fancy in extolling the crime of the Ides of March as an act of grave and plenary justice . The worst chapter in Tristram Shandy ' is a foolish rant about the ' godlike ...
... poets , and divines have , in general , exhausted erudition and fancy in extolling the crime of the Ides of March as an act of grave and plenary justice . The worst chapter in Tristram Shandy ' is a foolish rant about the ' godlike ...
Page 91
... poets , rhetoricians , and philosophers treated , and were apparently suffered to treat with impunity , the assassina- tion of the first Cæsar as a deed meriting praise . We believe the feeling which dictated their applause to have been ...
... poets , rhetoricians , and philosophers treated , and were apparently suffered to treat with impunity , the assassina- tion of the first Cæsar as a deed meriting praise . We believe the feeling which dictated their applause to have been ...
Page 173
... poets felt that their assurance of posthumous fame was doubly sure when they had associated their names with Homer or Virgil . It was a triumph to make the Greek or the Roman speak in poetical English , though that English might ...
... poets felt that their assurance of posthumous fame was doubly sure when they had associated their names with Homer or Virgil . It was a triumph to make the Greek or the Roman speak in poetical English , though that English might ...
Page 177
... poets concentrated in their choral odes ; whence it has been thought to follow that a translator , professing to embody the spirit of Greek art in the corresponding forms of his own country , in order to do so effectually , is bound to ...
... poets concentrated in their choral odes ; whence it has been thought to follow that a translator , professing to embody the spirit of Greek art in the corresponding forms of his own country , in order to do so effectually , is bound to ...
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Page 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
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Page 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Page 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
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