 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with, a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machines, Hotner seems like his own Jupiter... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 pages
...leads us with an attractive " majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; " Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, " like the Nile,...machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his V terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, " and firing the heavens ; Virgil, like the... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 pages
...Virgil leads U* wkh an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; VicgU hestow* with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river iu its hanks, with a constant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer sucms like his own... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 pages
...leads Bs with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a A aa generous profusion; Virgil hestows witk a 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 272 pages
...pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiter in his (errors, shaking Olympus, scattering lightnings, anff firing the heavens. Virgil, like the same power... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...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 willi a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream. — Pope's Preface... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion j Virgil bestows with a careless magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terror, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens. Virgil, like the same power,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pages
...Virgil leads us with 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. Homer is like his own Jupiter, in his terrors shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 320 pages
...scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil be»tows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like H2 s the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.' When we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generons profosion ; virgil bestows with a careful magnificence: Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless overflow ; virgil, like a river in its bauks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we... | |
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Homer was the greater genius; Virgil the better artist: in the one, we most admire the man; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ;... 
