| Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 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...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. 2. I am found, said virtue, in the vale, and illuminate the mountains. I cheer the cottager at his... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 pages
...with an 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." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have a sensible... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1848 - 460 pages
...arrangement, and the perfect conformity of the figures he uses to his purpose. Behold the one, "like hiß own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens!" See the other, as he gradually progresses in his strength, grandenr, and heauty! Both are read with... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 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...look upon their machines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiler in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens ; Virgil,... | |
| Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...appears undisturbed in the midst of the action ; disposes all about Mm, 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... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...with an 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\ (4.) I did. not say a better' soldier, but an elder*. He was esteemed not for his wealth', but for... | |
| Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 162 pages
...with an 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." Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too ofien, have a sensible... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1850 - 264 pages
...profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Kile, pours out his Triches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have a sensible... | |
| Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 466 pages
...with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look up on their machines. Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattermg lightnings, and firing the heavens. Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling... | |
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