 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 360 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...look upon their machines, Homer seems, like his own J up her in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens ; Virgil,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 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 bank, with a constant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 356 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. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 234 pages
...Homer sratters with a generous profusion ; Virgil hestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like tue 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1832 - 242 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 overflow ; Virgil, fike a river in its banks, with a constant stream. \V hen we look upon their machines, Homer seems... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his...Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.—And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1834 - 314 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 the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 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." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not... | |
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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 ;... 
