 Homer's sublimity is accompanied with more impetuosity and fire; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur. Homer hurries you along; Ossian elevates, and fixes you in astonishment.  The History of Civilization - Page 312by Amos Dean - 1869Full view - About this book
 | 1857 - 536 pages
...species of their sublimity. Homer's sublimity is accompanied with more impetuosity and fire ; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur. Homer hurries...has great power ; but Ossian exerts that power much oflener, and has the character of tenderness far more deeply imprinted on his works. No poet knew better... | |
 | 1865 - 838 pages
...poems. " Homer's sublimity," he remarks, " is accompanied with more impetuosity and fire ; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur. Homer hurries...in astonishment. Homer is most sublime in actions, Ossian in description and sentiment. In the pathetic, Homer, when he chooses to exert it, has great... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1906 - 524 pages
...in any of Fingal's warriors. Dr. Blair, formerly revered as an authority in rhetoric, remarked : " Homer is most sublime in actions and battles ; Ossian, in description and sentiment. He is even ahead of the polite and refined Virgil. . . . We find tenderness, and and even delicacy... | |
 | Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 576 pages
...passions in any of Fingal's warriors. Dr. Blair, formerly revered as an authority in rhetoric, remarked: "Homer is most sublime in actions and battles; Ossian, in description and sentiment. He is even ahead of the polite and refined Virgil. . . . We find tenderness, and even delicacy of sentiment,... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 596 pages
...species of their suhlimity. Homer's suhlimity is accompanied with more impetuosity and fire; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur. Homer hurries...elevates, and fixes you in astonishment. Homer is more suhlime in actions and hattles: Ossian in description and sentiment. In the pathetic, Homer, when... | |
 | Terence Brown - Celtic languages - 1996 - 318 pages
...respective merits of the epic in Homer's Greece, and in Celtic antiquity. 'Homer', we are assured, 'is most sublime in actions and battles; Ossian, in description and sentiment' . 19 Ossian embodies the traditional male virtues of the warrior and martial honour, but unusually,... | |
 | Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 284 pages
...writing. According to Blair, "Homer's sublimity is accompanied with more impetuosity and fire; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur. Homer hurries...along; Ossian elevates, and fixes you in astonishment." (Blair in Ashfield and de Bolla 1998: 209-210) Ossian, according to Blair, raises the mind to an uncommon... | |
 | Wolf Gerhard Schmidt - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 2003 - 612 pages
...'moderne' Part zugesprochen: "Homer's sublimity is accompanied with more impetuosity and fire; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur. Homer hurries you along; Ossian elevates, and fixes you hi astonishment. Homer is most sublime hi actions and battles; Ossian, in description and sentiment".94... | |
 | Martin Lowther Clarke - Greek language - 1983 - 274 pages
...species of their sublimity. Homer's sublimity is accompanied with more impetuosity and fire; Ossian's with more of a solemn and awful grandeur. Homer hurries...battles; Ossian in description and sentiment. In the pathetick, Homer, when he chuses to exert it, has great power; but Ossian exerts that power much oftener,... | |
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