 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...»4de, as it -was jn «•6 m<z **tr to make ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftance for Virgil, that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furniihing all thole allegorical parts of a poem. We... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...poets to lay it afide, as it was in Homer to make ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftance for Virgil, that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furnifhing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 pages
...poets to lay it aiide, as it was in Homer to make ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftance for Virgil, that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furnifhing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...to lay it afide, as it was in Homer to make life of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftance for Virgil, that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furniming all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 pages
...poets to lay it afide, as it was in Homer to make ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftanc* for Virgil, that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furnifhing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...as it was in Homer to make ufs of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumfhmce HOME R's ILIAD. 273 for Virgil, that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furnifhing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...poets to lay it afide, as it was in Homer to make ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumilance for Virgil, that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furniming all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...poets to lay it afide, as it was in Homer to ouke ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftance for Virgil, that there was not in His time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furaifhing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 pages
...it afide, is it was in Homer to make life of it. A r,d perhaps it was no unhappy circumfrance for . that there was not in his time that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furnifhing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem. We... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...poets to lay it afide, as it was in Homer to make ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circum/tance for Virgil, that there was not in his time' that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furnifhingall thofe allegorical parts of a poem. The... | |
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... circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and science was delivered in a plainer manner ; it then became as reasonable in the more modern poets to lay it aside, as it was in Homer... 
