 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1826 - 320 pages
...with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil hestows wilh 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. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...of the actiou ; disposes all ahout him, and couquers with tranquillity. And when we look upou theii ve rules, lightuings, and firing the heaveus; Virgil, like the same power in hit henevolence, couuselling with... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...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... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a " generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful maguificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its hanks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1830 - 360 pages
...upon the Diagrams will enable the student to discern and employ the falling ditone. with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 420 pages
...with an attractive majesty. . Homer scatters with a generous profusioa ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. '. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...a constant stream. — And when we look upon their machines,-Homer seems', like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings,... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1830 - 348 pages
...the midst of the action, disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. Or when we look on their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in...scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens : Virgil like XIV BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. — And when we look upon their marlines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiter in his terrors,...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 - 1831 - 284 pages
...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 overthrow ; Virgil, Ifke a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machines,... | |
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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 ;... 
