 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...this quality, which all true Critics have in common, our Author makes his distinguishing character ; " Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critic with a Poet's fire." ie with taste, or genius. Ver. 1 5. Let such teach others, $c.] But it is not enough that the Critic... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...hand, Still fit for use, and reedy at command. Thee, hold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, And hless their critic with a poet's fire : An ardent judge,...own example strengthens all his laws, And is himself that great suhlime he draws. 680 Thus long succeeding critics justly reign'd, Licence repress'd and... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...please the eye, than arm the hand, Still fit for use, and ready at command. Thee, bold Longinus ! 38 all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with...own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws. MO Thus long succeeding critics justly reigned, License repressed, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Use, and ready at Command. Thee, bold Longinus ! all the Nine inspire, 675 And bless their Critick with a Poet's Fire. An ardent Judge, who Zealous in...own Example strengthens all his Laws, And Is himself that great Sublime he draws. 680 Thus long succeeding Criticks justly reign'd, Licence repress'd, and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...gifted though he be " with a poet's fire," the unqualified praise of his illustrious prototype ; " An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just."* Johnson, as he has had occasion to remark, in reviewing his judgments of the several poets who have... | |
 | M. S. Silk, J. P. Stern - Philosophy - 1981 - 456 pages
...it treates is not without precedent. One thinks of Pope's compliment to 'Longinus', On the Sublime Whose own example strengthens all his laws. And is himself the great Sublime he draws.23 But it is hard to think of a theory that embodies an equivalence on Nietzsche's scale. BT... | |
 | Detmar Doering - Classicism - 1990 - 330 pages
...zu verfahren pflegt..." Pseudo-Longinos, Vom Erhabenen, gr7dt., v. R.Brandt, Darmstadt 1966, S. 31 "Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire And bless their critic with a poet's fire... Whose own examples strengthens all his laws: And is himself that great sublime he draws."1 Die Idee... | |
 | Steven Knapp - Education - 1993 - 192 pages
...Homer to praise Longinus himself: Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their Critick with a Poet's Fire. An ardent Judge, who Zealous in...own Example strengthens all his Laws, And Is himself that great Sublime he draws.4 The equation can of course be accounted for in strictly rhetorical terms... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - Art - 1993 - 512 pages
...zu verfahren pflegt..." Pseudo-Longinos, Vom Erhabenen, gr./dt., v. R.Brandt, Darmstadt 1966, S. 31 "Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire And bless their critic with a poet's fire... Whose own examples strengthens all his laws: And is himself that great sublime he draws."1 Die Idee... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...reciprocally assist each other, and since there is a necessary and indissoluble connection between them: this, Whose own example strengthens all his laws, And is himself the great sublime he draws. Pope. however, will not prevent our considering them apart with convenience and advantage. The first... | |
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Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime... 
