 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 páginas
...expire in his managing: However it is his safest way to be content with preserving this to his utmost in the Whole, without endeavouring to be more than...his Author is, in any particular Place. 'Tis a great Secret in Writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical and figurative; and it is what Homer... | |
 | Flora Ross Amos - 1920 - 216 páginas
...ours by a chimerical insolent hope of raising and improving their author. . . . 'Tis a great secret in writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical...is what Homer will teach us, if we will but follow modestly in his footsteps. Where his diction is bold and lofty, let us raise ours as high as we can;... | |
 | John Percival Postgate - 1922 - 232 páginas
...judgment has already been quoted, and we may continue our quotation from Pope: ''Tis a great secret in writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical, and it is what Homer will teach us if we will but follow hiimbly in his footsteps (my italics). When his... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 páginas
...without endeavouring to be more than he finds his Author is, in any particular Place. 'Tis a great Secret in Writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical...is what Homer will teach us if we will but follow modestly in his Footsteps. Where his Diction is bold and lofty, let us raise ours as high as we can... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 páginas
...expire in his managing : However it is his safest way to be content with preserving this to his utmost in the Whole, without endeavouring to be more than...his Author is, in any particular Place. 'Tis a great Secret in Writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical and figurative ; and it is what Homer... | |
 | T. R. Steiner - 1975 - 174 páginas
...expire in his managing: However it is his safest way to be content with preserving this to his utmost in the Whole, without endeavouring to be more than...his Author is, in any particular Place. Tis a great Secret in Writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical and figurative; and it is what Homer... | |
 | Tobias Döring - 2002 - 264 páginas
...he concedes in his preface to the Iliad ( 1 967 VII: 13). This shows again that 'tis a great Secret in Writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical...is what Homer will teach us if we will but follow modestly in his Footsteps' (1967, VII: 18). Derek Walcott follows in the poetological footsteps so... | |
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Tis a great Secret in Writing to know when to be plain, and when poetical and figurative; and it is what Homer will teach us if we will but follow modestly in his Footsteps. 
