 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 páginas
...nature of the man may account for his whole performance ; for he appears from his preface and remarks to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. His own boast of having fmished half the Iliad in less tlian fifteen weeks, shews with what .negligence... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 páginas
...nature of the man may account for his whole performance; for he appears from his preface and remarks to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. His own boast of having finished half the Iliad in less than fifteen weeks, shows with what negligence... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 páginas
...nature of the man may account for his whole performance : for he appears from his preface and remarks to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. His ova boast of having finished half the Iliad in less than fifteen weeks, shows with what negligence... | |
 | 1813 - 350 páginas
...nature of the man may account for his whole performance; for he appears from his preface and remarks to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. His own boast, of having finished half the Iliad in less than fifteen weeks, shows with what negligence... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 páginas
...nature of the man may account for his whole performance ; for he appears, from his preface and remarks, to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. His own boast of having finished half the Iliad in less than fifteen weeks, shews with what negligence... | |
 | Homer, George Chapman - 1818 - 282 páginas
...translation; which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived <o years of discretion." It is true that he has accused...little grace from Pope, who has even sometimes followed him in his deviations from the sense of Homer; and it is amusing to seu that, in a subsequent passage... | |
 | Homer, George Chapman - 1818 - 278 páginas
...years of discretion." It is true that he has accused Chapman of taking advantage of an immeasurable length of line, and of being rambling and paraphrastical...little grace from Pope, who has even sometimes followed him in his deviations from the sense of Homer; and it is amusing to see that, in a subsequent passage... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 páginas
...nature of the man may account for his whole performance ; for he appears from his preface and remarks to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. His own boast, of baving finished half the Iliad in less than fifteen weeks, shows with what negligence... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...nature of the man may account for his whole performance; for he appears, from his preface and remarks, s one million of subjects stronger than four millions? Dp you His own boast of having finished half the Iliad in less than fifteen weeks, shews with what negligence... | |
 | Joseph William Moss - 1825 - 558 páginas
...statement led Mr. Pope to observe of him, in the preface to his own translation, that " he appears to have been of an arrogant " turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. But that which is to be " allowed him, and which very much contributed to cover his " defects, is a... | |
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In a word, the nature of the man may account for his whole performance; for he appears from his preface and remarks to have been of an arrogant turn, and an enthusiast in poetry. 
