Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ; The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. Works - Seite 272von Samuel Johnson - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1803 - 222 Seiten
...logger easy. Any epithet which can be ejected wi.hout diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy re ign The souls of mighty... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 410 Seiten
...Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the sama word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical structure...of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Aehilla? wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 Seiten
...longer easy, Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licenses which an easy writer, must decline : Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 Seiten
...word, and all unusual though not ungramxj*hatical structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy P poetry. The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples...wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, he tv'nlji goddess, sing ; The \vruth which liurl'd to P uto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 Seiten
...longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The first b'nes of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Achilles'... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 Seiten
...longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, hcav'nly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 Seiten
...longer easy. Any epithet • which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heav'nly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty... | |
| 1915 - 632 Seiten
...'Actuate a\yi tOtlKev. Their simplicity is obvious, and one can imagine with what ease Mr Pope wrote : ' Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, Heavenly Goddess, sing,' or how, when he had once got his metre, these lines flowed from Mr Way's pen : ' The wrath of Achilles... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 612 Seiten
...Sir Joshua Reynolds. C. which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical...Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurfd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 378 Seiten
...longer easy. Any epithet which can be ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical,...Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly Goddess sing, The wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty... | |
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