The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the ancients. Indeed, in all the common subjects of poetry, the thoughts are so obvious, at least if they are natural, that whoever writes last must write things like... Modern English Literature: A Short History - الصفحة 205بواسطة Edmund Gosse - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 420عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the ancients. Indeed, in all the common subjects of poetry, the thoughts are so obvious fat least if they are natural),... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern Poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the Ancients8. Indeed, in all the common subjects of Poetry, the thoughts are so obvious, (at least if... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern Poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the Ancients8. Indeed, in all the common subjects of Poetry, the thoughts are so obvious, (at least if... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the Ancients.* Indeed, in all the common excelled it." But this was not a true judgment. La Filli di Sciro, of Bonarelli,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the Ancients.* Indeed, in all the common excelled it." But this was not a true judgment. La Filli di Sciro, of Bonarelli,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the Ancients'. Indeed, in all the common subjects of poetry, the thoughts are so obvious (at least if they are natural),... | |
| William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...surly cynic—the most inveterate critic reply to this, but as Walsh did, by good-naturedly saying, " The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the ancients. Indeed, in all the common subjects of poetry, the thoughts are so obvious (at least if they are natural,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the ancients. Indeed, in all the common subjects of poetry, the thoughts are so obvious, at least if they are natural,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...Homer has been accused of burning those that wrote before him, that his thefts might not be discovered. The best of the modern poets in all languages are those that have the nearest copied the ancients. Indeed, in all the common subjects of poetry, the thoughts are so obvious, at least if they are natural,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...far the liberty of borrowing may extend. Walsh replied on July 20, 1706:— " The best of the modem poets in all languages are those that have > the nearest copied the .indents. Indeed, in all the common subject* of poetry, the thoughts are so obvious, at least if they... | |
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