 ... sometimes rises to considerable grandeur of sentiment and imagery. In variety and versatility his lyric genius is unrivalled by that of any poet with whom we are acquainted; and there are no marks of inequality or of inferiority to himself. Whether...  Manual of Classical Literature - Page 306de Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1841 - 753 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Specimens - 1814 - 424 pages
...thought, and felicity of expression, rather than sublimity, seem to be its general character : though he sometimes rises to considerable grandeur of sentiment...unrivalled by that of any poet with whom we are acquainted; and there are no marks of inequality or of inferiority to himself. Whether his odes be of the moral... | |
 | Sir Charles Abraham Elton - 1814 - 422 pages
...thought, and felicity of expression, rather than sublimity, seem to be its general character : though he sometimes rises to considerable grandeur* of sentiment...unrivalled by that of any poet with whom we are acquainted; and there are no marks of inequality or of inferiority to himself. Whether his odes be of the moral... | |
 | Horace - 1830 - 1104 pages
...character of the style of Horace. " Virgil , sublimity, seem to be its general character, though the poet sometimes rises to considerable grandeur of sentiment...unrivalled by that of any poet with whom we are acquainted ; and there are no marks of inequality, or of inferiority to himself. Whether his Odes be of the moral... | |
 | Horace - 1831 - 360 pages
...conversational air, and a certain turn for fine raillery, that forms the secret by which they please. In variety and versatility, his lyric genius is unrivalled by that of any poet with whom we are acquainted ; and there are no marks of inequality or of inferiority to himself. Whether his odes be of the moral... | |
 | Horace - 1833 - 354 pages
...conversational air, and a certain turn for fine raillery, that forms the secret by which they please. In variety and versatility, his lyric genius is unrivalled by that of any poet with whom we are acquainted ; and there are no marks of inequality or of inferiority to himself. Whether his odes be of the moral... | |
 | 1886 - 562 pages
...thought and felicity of expression rather than sublimity seem to be its general character, though he sometimes rises to considerable grandeur of sentiment...unrivalled by that of any poet with whom we are acquainted, and there are no marks of inequality or of inferiority to himself. Whether his odes be of the moral... | |
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