 In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes so many short episodes ; to which...  The Spectator: ... - Page 2011737Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...and that too much nicety in this particular savours of the rhetorician and epigrammatist.' In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and...Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so, to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 184 pages
...fufficient, and that too much ' nicety in this Particular favours of the Rhetorician ' and Epigrammatifl.' In fhort, if we look into the Conduct of Homer, Virgil...many fhort Epifodes; to which you may add, if you pleafe, that their Metaphors are fo many fhort Similes. If the Reader confiders the Comparifons in... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1869 - 588 pages
...that too much ' nicety in this Particular favours of the Rhetorician ' and Epigrammatifl.' In (hört, if we look into the Conduct of Homer, Virgil and Milton,...many fhort Epifodes ; to which you may add, if you pleafe, that their Metaphors are fo many fhort Similes. If the Reader conûders the Comparifons in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 206 pages
...Particular iavours of the Rhetorician ' and Epigrammatift.' In fhort, if we look into the Conduct of H&ner, Virgil and Milton, as the great Fable is the Soul...many fhort Epifodes ; to which you may add, if you pleafe, that their Metaphors are fo many fhort Similes. If the Reader conflders the Comparifons in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 154 pages
...fufficient, and that too much ' nicety in this Particular favours of the Rhetorician ' and Epigrammatift.' In fhort, if we look into the Conduct of Homer, Virgil...their Epifodes are fo many fhort Fables, and their Similies fo many fhort Epifodes ; to which you may add, if you pleafe, that their Metaphors are fo... | |
 | Roger Ascham - Archery - 1868 - 372 pages
...fufficient, and that too much • mcety m this Particular favours of the Rhetorician ' and Epigrammatift.' In fhort, if we look into the Conduct of Homer, Virgil...Works an agreeable Variety, their Epifodes are fo many ihort Fables, and their Similies fo many ihort Epifodes; to which you may add, if you pleafe, that... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...in the variety, but also in the novelty of his characters. ADDISON : Spectator, No. 273. In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and...Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so, to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...in the variety, but also in the novelty of his characters. ADDISON : Spectator, No. 273. In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and...Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so, to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their similes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pages
...and that too much nicety in this particular savors of the rhetorician and epigrammatist.' In short, if we look into the conduct of Homer, Virgil, and...Milton, as the great fable is the soul of each poem, so, 5 to give their works an agreeable variety, their episodes are so many short fables, and their... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 218 pages
...such, talk of Boileau, a critic much esteemed in Addison's day, ending his paper thus:— " In short, if we look into the Conduct of Homer, Virgil, and Milton, as the great Fable 1 is the soul of each Poem, so to give their Works an agreeable Variety, their Episodes are so many... | |
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