 | William Hayley - 1781 - 418 pages
...igual la efpada y pluma.. againft our Poet on this occafion ; but let us recolled that Ercilla has infinitely more Homeric fpirit, and that his poem...account of him with a tranflation of the Sonnet, in wbjich fhe celebrates both the Hero and the Poet, SONNET FROM THE LADY LEONORA DE ICIZ, BARONESS OF... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1782 - 588 pages
...our Poet on this occafion ; but let us recollecl, that Ercilla has infinitely more Homeric fpirir, and that his poem contains more genuine Epic beauties, than can be found in Voltaire.' As a fpecitnen both of the fpirit of the Poet and of his Tranflator, we ih.il 1 lay before our Readers... | |
 | William Hayley - 1785 - 310 pages
...the lively Frenchman againft our Poet oa this occalion ; K 4 but but let us recoiled that Ercilla has infinitely more Homeric fpirit, and that his poem...has been paid to his genius is the production of a Spanifli lady, I fball clofe this account of him with a tranflation of the SOMI;:, in which (he celebrates... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Dyck, Georg Schaz - 1793 - 492 pages
...this occalion ; but let us recollen that Krзь ciUa has infinitely more Homeric I'pirit, and that hie poem contains more genuine Epic* beauties , than can be found in Voltaire." Petms anil Plays by if. L/!/. I'oi. IV. 'p. 91. unb breçfjigfïer 6ef«ng. Çin ge« fatrgner Qirmtcaner... | |
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Voltaire himself and others, but the positive en:husiasm and the omission of any real negative criticism are new. Indeed, after making these statements, Hayley proceeds to translate almost 900 lines of the poem. The Essay on Epic Poetry soon came to be... 