 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 396 pages
...parallels, that thefe criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft : a conf:deration which whoever compares thefe two poets, ought to have...the fame things which they overlook or praife in the ether ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of th» /fCm.'is to thofe of the Iliad, for the famereafons... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...undermining the foundation : One would imagine by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft...accufe him for the fame things which they overlook and praife in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the JEneis to thofe of the Iliad,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...undermining the foundation : one would imagine, by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe critics never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft...accufe him for the fame things which they overlook or praifc in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the .diñéis to thofc of the Iliad,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...undermining the foundation : one would imagine, by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thcfe critics never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft...other; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the j'Encis to thofe of the Iliad, for the fame reafons which might fet the Odyfles above the j'Encis:... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 pages
...parallels, that thefe critics never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft : a confideratioa which, whoever compares thefe two poets, ought to...other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the JEne'u to thofe of the Iliad, for the fama reafons which might fet the Odyfles above the JEneis : as... | |
 | Homer - 1796 - 416 pages
...ima* Hefiod,, lib. i. ver. 155, tfr. gine by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft...other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the ./Eneis to thofe of the Iliad, for the fame reafons which might fet the Odyfles above the ^Eneis :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 pages
...undermining the foundation : One would imagine by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe critics never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft...thofe of the Iliad, for the fame reafons which might let the Odyfley above the jEneis : as that the Hero is a wifer man ; and the action of the one more... | |
 | 1797 - 680 pages
...undermining the foundation : one would imagine, by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe critics never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft;...other; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the JEneis to thole of the llizd, for the fame reafons which might fet the Odyfles above the Aliéis :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 496 pages
...imagine, by the -whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe criticks never fo much as heard of Homtr's having written firft : a confideration which whoever...have always in his eye. Some accufe him for the fame thtnps which th<;y overlook or praife in die oiher ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...foundation : one would imagine, by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe criticks never fb much as heard of Homer's having written firft : a...have always in his eye. Some accufe him for the fame thinps which they overlook or praife in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the... | |
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OdyfTes above the yEneis : as that the. hero is a wifer man ; and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other : or... 
