 Chemical medicines are observed to relieve oftener than to cure ; for it is the nature of spirits to make swift impressions, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly compare an epic poem, have more of body in them ; they work by their...  Virgil: The Eclogues - Page 164by Virgil - 1830Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 408 pages
...cure : for it is the nature of fpirits to make fwift impreffions, but not deep. Galenical deceptions, to which I may properly compare an epic poem, have more of body in them ; they work by their fubftance and their weight. It is one reafon of Ariftotle's to prove that tragedy is the more noble,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 pages
...make fwift impreflions, but not deep. Galenical decoftions, to which I may properly compare P» w» an epic poem, have more of body in them; they work by their fubftance and their weight. It is one reafon of Ariftotle's to prove that tragedy is the more noble,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...obferved to relieve oftener than to cure i for it is the nature of fyirits to make fwift impremons, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly...poem, have more of body in them : they work by their fubftancc* and weight. It is one reafon of Ariftotle's to prove that tragedy is the move noble, becaufe... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...cure ; for it is the nature of fpirits to make fwift imprelTions, but not deep. Galenical decoctiom, to which I may properly compare an epic poem, have more of body in them : they work by their fubftance and weight. It il one reafon of Ariftotle's to prove that tragedy is the more noble, becaufe... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...obferved to relieve oftcncr than to cure ; for it is the nature of fpirits to make fwift impreifions, but not deep. ' Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly compare an epic poem,4iave more of body in them: they work by their fubftance and weight. It is one reafon of Aridotle's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...make swift impressions, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly compare an epick poem, have more of body in them ; they work by their...whole action being circumscribed within the space of fbur-and-twenty hoursi He might prove as well, that a mushroom is to be preferred before a peach, because... | |
 | Virgil - 1806 - 414 pages
...observed to relieve oftener than to cure : for it is the nature of spirits to make swift impressions, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly...they work by their substance and their weight. It i» one reason of Aristotle's to prove that tragedy is the more noble, because it turns in a shorter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...observed to relieve oftener than to cure : for it a the nature of spirits to make swift impressions, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly...four-andtwenty hours. He might prove as well that i mushroom is to be preferred before a peach, because it shoots up ¡u the compass of a night Л chariot... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...observed to relieve oftener than to cure : for it i« the nature of spirits to make swift impressions, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly...Aristotle's to prove that tragedy is the more noble, became it turns in a shorter compass : the whole action being circumscribed within the space of four-andtwenty... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...observed to relieve oftener than to cure : for it is the nature of spirits to make swift impression«, but not deep. Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly...poem, have more of body in them ; they work by their substinee and their weight. It is one reason of Arislotle'i to prove that tragedy is the more noble,... | |
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