...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and net returning too often, have a sensible...

...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we behold...

...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil hestows with a careful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we...

...generous profusion ; " Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, " like the Nile, ,ppurs out Lis riches with a sudden " overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a " constant stream. When we look upon their ma" chines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his ter<' rors, shaking Olympus,...

...leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with «* careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours...Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream."—Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have...

...inflames his crimes." Better thus: " A friend exaggerates, a man's virtues; an enemy, his crimes." careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours...his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a rive» jn its banks, with a constant stream."—Periods thus constructed, when, introduced with propriety,...

...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sndden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its bauks, with a constant stream."— Periods thus constructed,...

...us with an attractive majefty. Homer fcatters, c* with a generous profufion ; Virgil beftows with ic a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, " pours out his riches with a fudden overflow; " Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a conftant " ftream. And when we look upon...

...appears undisturbed in the midst of the action ; disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his tcrroun, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same...

...tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terreurs, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in hU benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering Ьи ahole...