 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...and the Age in which he liv'd, allow'd him; Homer's Invention was more1 Virgil's more confin'd : So that if Homer had not led the Way, it was not in Virgil to have begun Hcroick Poetry: For, nothing can be more evident, than that the Roman Poem is but the Second Part of... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...invention was more copious, Virgil's more confined : fo that if Homer had not led the way, it was not ii Virgil to have begun heroic poetry : for, nothing...can be more evident, than that the Roman poem is but die fecond part of the ! lias ; a continuation of the fame ftory : and the perfons already formed :... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...thoughts, and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties berties both of numbers, and of expreffions, which his language,...ftory : and the perfons already formed: the manners of ./Eneas are thofe of He&or fuperadded to thofe which Homer gave hirrs. Ths Adventures of Ulyfies in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, ft:tlate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and fulj of fire. The chief talent of Virgil was propriety...evident, than that the Roman poem is but the fecond j>art of the Ilias; a continuation of the fame ftcry : and theperfcms already formed : :he manners... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...: Homer was rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties, both of numbers and of exprefllons, which his language, and the age in which he lived,...the Ilias ; a continuation of the fame ftory : and thepsrfons already formed : the manners of ./Eneas are thofe of Heftor fuperadded to thofe which Homer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...was rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties, both of numbers and of expreffions, which hie language, and the age in which he lived, allowed him...the Ilias; a continuation of the fame ftory : and theperfons already formed: the manners of JEnezs are thofe of Heftor fuperadded to thofe which Homer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...age in which he lived, allowed him : Homer's invention was more copious, Virgil's more confined : fa that if Homer had not led the way, it was not in Virgil...nothing can be more evident, than that the Roman poem is hut the fecond part of the Ilias ; a continuation of the fame ftory : and the perfons already formed... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...confined : fo that if Homer had not led the way, it »и not in Virgil to have be^un heroic poetry : fir nothing can be more evident, than that the Roman poem is but the fécond part of Ilia« ; a continuation of the fame ftory : and the perfons already formed : the manners... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...Homer's invention was more copious, Virgins more confined? fa thac if Homer had not led the way, it wat not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry : for nothing...than that the Roman poem is but the fecond part of Ilia* ; a continuation of the fame (lory : and the perfons already formed : the manners of /T.nrj^... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...conbed : fo that if Homer had not led the way, it •u not in Virgil to 'have begun heroic poetry : fo nothing can be more evident, than that the Roman poem is but the fecond part of Ilias ; a carincation of the fame ftory : and the perfons Atah; formed : the manners of JEnaa are thofe... | |
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Homer was rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties, both of numbers and of expressions, which his language, and the age in which he lived, allowed him. Homer's invention was more copious, Virgil's more confined; so that if Homer had not led the... 
