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Biographia Classica: The Lives and Characters of All the Classic Authors ... - Page 181
1750
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...invention, Virgil has in judgment. jttot that we are to think Hmtr wanted judgment,. bccauic becatjfe r/rg// had it in a more eminent degree; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe Homer poffeft a larger fliare of it: Each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 pages
...is in that we are to confider him, and in '-proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe Homer poffeft a larger fhare of it : Each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than oae faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invention,...degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe Homer pofleft a larger fhare of it : Each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invent 'ion , Virgil has in judgment. Not that we are to think Homer...degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe Homer pafTeft a larger (hare of it : Each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has L~. judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wam• ed judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, bccaufe Homer pofleft a larger fhare of it : Each v : thefe great authors had more of both than perhjrany...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 7

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...degree; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe Homer poffefl a larger fhare of it : Each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps 'any man befides,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 pages
...are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No man or author ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty...degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe Homer pofleft a larger fhare of it : Each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides,...
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Biographia Classica: The Lives and Characters of the Greek and ..., Volume 1

Edward Harwood - 1778 - 412 pages
...in more than one Faculty, and as Homer has done this in Invention, Virgil has in Judgment. Not tha* we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, becaufe Virgil...thefe great Authors had more of both perhaps than any Poet befides, and are only faid to have lefs in Comparifon with one another. Homer was a greater Genius,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...the world in more than one faculty; and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in ludgment* Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, becaufe...degree; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe Homer poffeft a larger fhave of it : Each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides,...
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The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, Volume 2

Virgil - 1778 - 526 pages
...has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted jadgment becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or...wanted invention becaufe Homer poflefled a larger ihare of it : each of thefe great authors had more of both than perhaps any man befides, and are only...
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