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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 ;... "
A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... - Page 85
by Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 344 pages
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...an attractive majesty. Homer " scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil " bestows with a careless magnificence. Homer, " like the Nile, pours out his...machines, Homer seems like " his own Jupiter in his terrours, shaking Olym" pus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the " heavens. Virgil, like the...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1823 - 458 pages
...leads " us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters " with a gene/ous profusion ; Virgil bestows with " a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...with a constant " stream. And when we look upon their ma" chines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiter in " his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the " lightnings,...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1823 - 320 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...Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering lightnings, and firing the heavens. Virgil like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 pages
...Homer, scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, Kke the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow...when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like bis own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens...
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English Grammar ...

Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pages
...attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a . generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnilicence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have a sensible...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 7

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 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 with a boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we...
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Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows nd the next morning he was found playing in his bed with two owls which came d boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we...
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The Iliad of Homer: Books I-XII

Homer - 1825 - 298 pages
...appears undisturhed in the midst of the action ; disposes all ahout him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems...firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in his henevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying plans foi empires, and regularly ordering his whole...
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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...scatters with a generous profusion : Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the ?Jile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow: Virgil,...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have a sensible....
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 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 with a boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we...
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