 Virgil, must be deprived of that glory ? Is Versailles the less a new building, because the 'architect of that palace hath imitated others which were built before it ? Walls, doors, and windows, apartments, offices, rooms of convenience and magnificence,...  The Works of Virgil - Page lixby Virgil - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 494 pages
...the reft, muft be in all heroic poems ; they are the common materials of poctt'y,. furniflied' front the magazine of nature; every poet hath as much right...man hath to air or Water. " Quid; " prohibetis aquas ?' ufus communis aquar.um eft." But the argument of the work,, that is to.lay, its principal aflion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1130 pages
...fables, and'the reft, muft be in alV heroic poems ; they are the common materials of poetry, furnifhed from the magazine of nature', every poet hath as much...to them, as every man hath to air or -water. " Quid " prohibctis aquas ? ufns communis aquarumeft." But the argument of the work, that is to fay, its principal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 pages
...£aNes, and'the reft, muft be in all heroic poems ; they are the common material's of poetry, furnifhed from the magazine of nature; every poet hath as much right to them, as-every man hath to air or water. " Quui. " prohibetis acjuas ? ufus communis aquar-uoi eft.™ But... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 424 pages
...the archi-* teft of that palace hath imitated others which were built before it ? Walls, doors and windows, apartments, offices, rooms of convenience and magnificence, are in all great houfes. So defcriptions, figures^ fables, and the reft, muft be in all' heroic poems ; they are the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 pages
...convenience and magnificence, are in all great houfes. So deferiptions, figures, fables, and the reft, muft be in' all heroic poems ; they are the common materials of poetry, furnifhed from the magazine of nature; every poet hath as much right to them, as every man 'hath to... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 366 pages
...becaufe the architeft of that palace hath imitated others which were built before it ? Walls, doors and windows, apartments, offices, rooms of convenience and magnificence, are in all great houfes. So defcriptions, figures, fables, and the reft, muft be in all heroic poems; they are the common... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...fables, and the reft, muft be in all heroic poems ; they are the common materials of paetry, furniih. ed from the magazine of nature ; every poet hath as much...man hath to air or water. " Quid prohibetis aquas ? ufus com" nfunis aquarum eft." But the argument of the work, that is to fay, its principal action,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...convenience and magnificence, are in ail great houfcs. So dcfcriptions, figures, fables, and the reft, muft be in all heroic poems; they are the common materials of poetry, furnifli. ed from the magazine of nature ; every poet hath as much right to them, as every man hath... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...becaufe the architect of that palace hath imitated others which were built before it ? Walls, doors and windows, apartments, offices, rooms of convenience and magnificence, are in all great houfei. So defcription<, figures, faMes, and the reft, ruuft be in all heroic poems ; they are the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...magnificence, are in all great houses. So descriptions, figures, fables, and the rest, must be in all heroick poems ; they are the common materials of poetry, furnished...Quid prohibetis aquas ? Usus communis aquarum est. did not himself correct the proof-sheets of his work, as they passed through the press ; but having... | |
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