 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...Virgil lead 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 138 POPE'S TRANSLATIONS. boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 300 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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 pages
...Virgil leads U* wkh an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; VicgU hestow* with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river iu its hanks, with a constant stream. And when we look upon... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 pages
...leads Bs with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a A aa generous profusion; Virgil hestows witk 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."—Periods thus constructed,... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 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 willi a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream. — Pope's Preface... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generons profosion ; virgil bestows with a careful magnificence: Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless overflow ; virgil, like a river in its bauks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pages
...Virgil leads us with 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. Homer is like his own... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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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. 
