 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...of the verse, that verse is no longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word,...structure of speech, Destroy the grace of easy poetry. • Hv Sir Joehua Revuoldj. The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...thus ; " The wrath of Peleus" son, the direful spring Of ail the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing ; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain." The stern Pelides' rage, O Goddess, sing, wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 pages
...The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O goddess, sing ; That wratk which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides' rage, O goddess, sing, wrath Of all the woes ofGneeoe the fatal sprang, Grecian... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...Г. ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes uunumher'd, heavenly goddess, sing I That and Co. slain ; Whose limhs unhuru-d ou the naked shore, Devouring dogs aiid hungry vultures tore; Since great... | |
 | 1828
...I. 9 ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess sing! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - 1830 - 454 pages
...the ancient bards, we find them frequently dwelling on the same important theme. They tell us of, " The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs, untimely slain; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore." They tell... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Olympus. ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That / slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Ilevouring dogs and hungry vulture» tore : Since... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...stands thus ; The wrath of Peleus' son, thedireful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing, That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides'raj?*, O Goddess, sinp. wrath Of all the woes of Greece the fatal spring,... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 410 pages
...Pope, — The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O goddess, sing ; That wrath, which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign ' The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. Von. — Singe den Zorn, o Giittin, des Peleiaden Achilleus, Ihn, der entbrannt den Achaiern... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 568 pages
...Trojan«. ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'il, heavenly goddess sing! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great... | |
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Reynolds. ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences... 
