| Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...sphere of poetry beyond the limits he has set : every attempt of this nature has proved unsuccessful ; and after all the various changes of times and religions,...to this day the gods of poetry. We come now to the characters of his persons ; and here we shall find no author has ever drawn so many, with so visible... | |
| Homer - 1884 - 500 pages
...sphere of poetry beyond the limits he has set: every attempt of this nature has proved unsuccessful; and after all the various changes of times and religions,...his gods continue to this day the gods of poetry. ination appear, which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the... | |
| Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1909 - 630 pages
...sphere of poetry beyond the limits he has set : every attempt of this nature has proved unsuccessful ; and after all the various changes of times and religions,...to this day the gods of poetry. We come now to the characters of his persons ; and here we shall find no author has ever drawn so many, with so visible... | |
| Willard Higley Durham - Criticism - 1915 - 502 pages
...Sphere of Poetry beyond the Limits he has set: Every Attempt of this Nature has prov'd unsuccessful ; and after all the various Changes of Times and Religions,...to this Day the Gods of Poetry. We come now to the Characters of his Persons, and here we shall find no Author has ever drawn so many with so visible... | |
| John Adams Scott - Epic poetry, Greek - 1921 - 298 pages
...set: every attempt of this nature has proved unsuccessful : and after all the various changes of time and religions, his gods continue to this day the gods of poetry. In these few words Pope has given all that need be said about Homeric religious beliefs. Homer drew... | |
| Albert J. Rivero - History - 1997 - 324 pages
...Sphere of Poetry beyond the Limits he has set: Every Attempt of this Nature has prov'd unsuccessful; and after all the various changes of Times and Religions,...his Gods continue to this Day the Gods of Poetry. 12 Supernature and Homer were, Pope found, the same. To be sure, the reasons for this amazing coincidence... | |
| Jasper Griffin - Education - 2004 - 116 pages
...they are so perfect in the poetic, that mankind has ever been since contented to follow them , , , after all the various changes of times and religions,...his gods continue to this day the gods of poetry,' The whole conception of Milton's Paradise Lost, with war in heaven described in Homeric battle scenes,... | |
| David Armstrong - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 384 pages
...blame his Machines in a Philosophical or Religious View, they are so perfect in the Poetick, that . . . after all the various Changes of Times and Religions, his Gods continue to this Day the Gods of Poetry."42 Pope (a nominal Christian) was, of course, well aware that Christian poets like Tasso and... | |
| India - 1877 - 460 pages
...machinery for poetry, and such a one as makes its greatest importance and dignity * * * and after all the changes of times and religions his gods continue to- this day the gods of poetry.* To the ancient Greek philosophers is however in any case due the earliest precision of thought in the... | |
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