The life and writings of Henry Fuseli, the former written and the latter ed. by J. Knowles, Հատոր 1 |
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... Homer 77 CHAPTER VI . Fuseli's proficiency in Italian History , Literature , and the Fine Arts , exemplified in his Criticism on Roscoe's Lorenzo de ' Medici 110 CHAPTER VII . Fuseli's Marriage . - His inducements to associate himself ...
... Homer 77 CHAPTER VI . Fuseli's proficiency in Italian History , Literature , and the Fine Arts , exemplified in his Criticism on Roscoe's Lorenzo de ' Medici 110 CHAPTER VII . Fuseli's Marriage . - His inducements to associate himself ...
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... your criterion of books . If Richardson is old , Homer is ob- solete . Clarissa , to me , is pathetic - is exquisite ; I never read it without crying like a child . " lents , and with whom he could therefore with the HENRY FUSELI . 13.
... your criterion of books . If Richardson is old , Homer is ob- solete . Clarissa , to me , is pathetic - is exquisite ; I never read it without crying like a child . " lents , and with whom he could therefore with the HENRY FUSELI . 13.
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... your criterion of books . If Richardson is old , Homer is ob- solete . Clarissa , to me , is pathetic - is exquisite ; I never read it without crying like a child . ” ners . After Henry Fuseli had attended for some time HENRY FUSELI . 13.
... your criterion of books . If Richardson is old , Homer is ob- solete . Clarissa , to me , is pathetic - is exquisite ; I never read it without crying like a child . ” ners . After Henry Fuseli had attended for some time HENRY FUSELI . 13.
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... Homer into English blank verse . To give the public some notion of his powers , and ability to execute the task , he sent to Mr. Johnson , his publisher , a manuscript translation of 107 lines of the 24th book of the Iliad , being part ...
... Homer into English blank verse . To give the public some notion of his powers , and ability to execute the task , he sent to Mr. Johnson , his publisher , a manuscript translation of 107 lines of the 24th book of the Iliad , being part ...
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... Homer , and also in his published letters , have given many testimonials of their opinion of Fuseli , not only as a Greek scholar , but for his taste and judgment in English poetry . The former ( Hayley ) remarks , " It is a singular ...
... Homer , and also in his published letters , have given many testimonials of their opinion of Fuseli , not only as a Greek scholar , but for his taste and judgment in English poetry . The former ( Hayley ) remarks , " It is a singular ...
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Էջ 356 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Էջ 204 - Our lingering parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain; then disappear'd. They looking back all th...
Էջ 196 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Էջ 199 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Էջ 206 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Էջ 203 - Shall bring on men." Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark ; A lazar-house it seem'd, wherein were laid Numbers of all...
Էջ 206 - To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend...
Էջ 200 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 195 - In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Էջ 203 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.