 It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequalled fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him.  The Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 369von Alexander Pope - 1822Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John William Mackail - 1910 - 304 Seiten
...vital imagination. " It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequal fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that...poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. Everything moves, everything lives, and is put in action ; the reader is hurried out of himself by... | |
 | John William Mackail - 1910 - 306 Seiten
...much the same meaning as that which we now express by the term constructive or vital imagination. " It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequal fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that no man of a true poetical spirit is master... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 Seiten
...perusal of him affects not our minds with such strong emotions as we feel from Homer and Milton, so that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads them. Hence he is a writer fit for universal perusal, adapted to all ages and stations, for the old... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 Seiten
...perusal of him affects not our minds with such strong emotions as we feel from Homer and Milton, so that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads them. Hence he is a writer fit for universal perusal, adapted to all ages and stations, for the old... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 Seiten
...perusal of him affects not our minds with such strong emotions as we feel from Homer and Milton, so that no man of a true poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads them. Hence he is a writer fit for universal perusal, adapted to all ages and stations, for the old... | |
 | 1912 - 568 Seiten
...erste mal behufs eines allgemeinen vergleichs, der Homer's "vivida vis animi" umkreist : That unequal'd fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that...poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him — This fire is discern'd in Virgil, but discern'd as through a glass, reflected from Homer, more... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 Seiten
...Perfection or Maturity, it is only because they are over-run and opprest by those of a stronger Nature. It is to the Strength of this amazing Invention we are to attribute that unequal'd Fire and Rapture, which is so forcible in Homer, that no Man of a true Poetical Spirit is... | |
 | Laura Spencer Portor - 1917 - 312 Seiten
...imagination, his "invention," and his fine manner of telling the tale, what Pope calls "that unequal fire and rapture which is so forcible in Homer, that...poetical spirit is master of himself while he reads him. Everything moves, everything lives and is put in action; the reader is hurried out of himself by the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1917 - 140 Seiten
...himself is often a victim to his own fire and genius. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, p. 420. 1715-25: It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequaled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is... | |
 | Edward Young - 1917 - 150 Seiten
...himself is often a victim to his own fire and genius. Hume, Treatise on Human Nature, p. 420. 1715-25: It is to the strength of this amazing invention we are to attribute that unequaled fire and rapture, which is so forcible in Homer that no man of a true poetical spirit is... | |
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