 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...in the other the work: Homer hurries and trausports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty: Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil hestows with a careful mapnifictnce : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a houndless overflow... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 330 pages
...admire the man ; in (he other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with...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,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1809 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...other the work : Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil fads us with attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous...Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless ovtrflow ; Virgil like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we behold... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...other the work : Homer hurries and transport! us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with a artful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a.boundless overflow ; Virgil... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...against him to proceed from so noble a cause as the excess of this faculty. tuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with...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... | |
 | 1813 - 352 pages
...in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with...with a careful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, poun out his riches with a boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and... | |
 | Jonathan Morgan - 1814 - 298 pages
...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...with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, outpours his riches, with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river, in its banks, with a constant stream."... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...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...overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a censtant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems imselling wilh tho gods, laying... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil lead us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with...Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a 138 POPE'S TRANSLATIONS. boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and... | |
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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;... 
