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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;... "
An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language ... - Page 305
by Lindley Murray - 1819
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A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ...

Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 360 pages
...the Diagrami will enable the student to discern and employ the falling ditone. tuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. Blair

Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pages
...admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil le^ds us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with...with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its bank, with a constant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter...
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A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ...

Jonathan Barber - 1832 - 356 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 sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric: ... with Appropriate Questions to ...

Hugh Blair - 1832 - 242 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...pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, fike a river in its banks, with a constant stream. \V hen we look upon their machines, Homer seems...
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A new grammar of the Portuguese and English languages. Pt.1, Port. Pt.2 ...

Luiz Francisco Midosi - 1832 - 340 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 a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a .careless magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ...

Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 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...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus,...
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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 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...Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.—And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners. With an ...

Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not...
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The Elements of English Composition

David Irving - 1836 - 432 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...Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.—Pope's Preface to Homer. This picture however would have been more finished, if to the Nile...
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Murray's English Exercises: Consisting of Exercises in Parsing ... with ...

Lindley Murray - 1837 - 260 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...Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant strenm." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often,...
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