 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 300 pages
...with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with, a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machines, Hotner seems like his own Jupiter... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out bis riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river...scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 550 pages
...an attractive " majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; " Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, " like the Nile, pours out his...machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his V terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, " and firing the heavens ; Virgil, like the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...an attractive " majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; « Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, " like the Nile, pours out his...the lightnings, " and firing the heavens ; Virgil, like the same Power " in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, " laying plans for empires, and... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...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 their machines, Homer sucms like his own... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1822 - 272 pages
...pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiter in his (errors, shaking Olympus, scattering lightnings, anff firing the heavens. Virgil, like the same power... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion j Virgil bestows with a careless magnificence. Homer,...machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terror, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens. Virgil, like the same power,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...appears undisturbed in the midst of the action ; disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems...scattering the lightnings, and firing the Heavens; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 304 pages
...appears undisturbed in the midst of the action ; disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems...scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English language - 1822 - 230 pages
...us with attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. Homer is like his own Jupiter, in his terrors shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing... | |
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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 ;... 
