 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.  An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric - עמוד 81מאת Hugh Blair - 1802 - 300 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 דפים
...Virgil leads us with an attraclive majefty : Homer fcatters with a generous profufion ; Virgil beftows with a careful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundlefs overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and coiiftant ftreavn. When we... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 דפים
...Virgil leads us with an attra&ive majefty : Homer fcatters with a generous profufion j Virgil beftows with a careful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundlefs overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and conItant ftream. When we... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 דפים
...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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like " a river in its banks, with a constant stream. And when we " look upon... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 דפים
...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 דפים
...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1809 - 442 דפים
...us with an attractive majefty. Homer fcatters, c* with a generous profufion ; Virgil beftows with ic a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, " pours...like a river in its banks, with a conftant " ftream. And when we look upon their " machines. Homer feems like his own Jupiter " in his terrors, making Olympus,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 דפים
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 352 דפים
...inflames his crimes." Better thus: " A friend exaggerates, a man's virtues; an enemy, his crimes." careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a rive» jn its banks, with a constant stream."—Periods thus constructed,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1812 - 444 דפים
...leads us with an attrac" tive majefty. Homer fcatters with a gene" rous profufion ; Virgil beftows with a careful " magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours " out his riches with a fudden overflow ; Vir"_ gil, like a river in its banks, with a conftant " ftream. And when we look upon their " machines,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 דפים
...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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