 Art of Poetry; in both of which he observes no method that I can trace, whatever Scaliger the father, or Heinsius, may have seen, or rather think they had seen. I have taken up, laid down, and resumed as often as I pleased, the same subject : and this...  The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets - Page 161813Full view - About this book
 | Virgil - 1721 - 456 pages
...and refum'd as often as I . pleas'd the fame Subject : And this loofc proceeding I fhall ufe thro' all this Prefatory Dedication. Yet all this while I have been Sailing with fomc Side-Wind or other toward the Point I propos' d in the beginning ; the Greatnefs and Excellency... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 pages
...laid down, and refumed, as often as I pleafed, the fame fubjeft : and this loofe proceeding I mail ufe through all this prefatory Dedication. Yet all this while I have been failing with fome fide-wind or other toward the point I propofed in the beginning ; the greatnefs and... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 366 pages
...laid down, and refumed, 33 often as I pleafed, the fame fubjeft : and this loofe proceeding I mall ufe through all this prefatory Dedication. Yet all this while I have been failing with fome fide-wind or other toward the point I propofed in the beginning; the greatnefs and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...down, and relumed, as often as I pleafed, the fame fubjeift : and this loofe proceeding I (hall me through all this prefatory Dedication. Yet all this while I have been failing with fome fide-wind or other toward the point I propafed in the beginning ; the greatnefs and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...down, and refumed, as often as I pleafed, the fame fubject : and this loofe proceeding I (hall ufe through all this prefatory Dedication. Yet all this while I have been failing with fome fide-wind or other toward the point I propofcd in the beginning ; the greatneft and... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...down, and refumed, as often as I pleafed, the fame fubject : and this loofe proceeding I fliall ufe through all this prefatory Dedication. Yet all this while I have been failing with fome fide-wind or other toward the point I propofed in the beginning ; the greatnefs and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...in both of which he observes no method that I can trace, whatever Scaliger the father, or Heinsius may have seen, or rather think they had seen. I have...the beginning ; the greatness and excellency of an heroick poem, with some of the difficulties which attend that work. The comparison therefore which... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...in both of which he observes no method that I can trace, whatever Scaliger the father, or Heinsius may have seen, or rather think they had seen. I have...the beginning ; the greatness and excellency of an heroick poem, with some of the difficulties which attend that work. The comparison therefore which... | |
 | Virgil - 1803 - 408 pages
...in both of which he observes no method that I can trace, whatever Scaliger the father, or Heinsius, may have seen, or rather think they had seen. I have...in the beginning ; the greatness and excellency of a heroic poem, with some of the difficulties which attend that work. The comparison, therefore, which... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...in both of which he observes no method that I can trace, whatever Scaliger the father, or Heinsius, may have seen, or rather think they had seen. I have...in the beginning; the greatness and excellency of a heroic poem, with some of the difficulties which attend that work. The comparison, therefore, which... | |
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