 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 356 pages
...following passage from Pope's Preface to his Homer, fully exemplifies the rule just given: "Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist: in the...attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous I profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1818 - 320 pages
...following passage from Pope's Preface to his Homer, fully exemplifies the rule just given : " Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist: in the...Virgil leads us- with an attractive majesty. Homer sealers with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...spirited and cogent; the other, more agreeable, but, withal, looser and weaker. ! !•. Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil the better artist : in the...careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out bis riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream — And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pages
...passage from Pope's Preface to his Homer, fully exemplifies the rule just given : l< Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist : in the...hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil feads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 324 pages
...his Homer, fully exemplifies the rule just given : " Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the hetter artist: in the one, we most admire the man ; in the...hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads Bs with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a A aa generous profusion; Virgil hestows witk a... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 230 pages
...serious for those who have most reason on their side." And in this of Mr. Pope's : " Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist ; in the...with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 320 pages
...beautifully exemplifies this rule. "Homer was the greater genius.; Virgil the better artist : in the one we admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries...Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil be»tows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like H2 s the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...rule we are now giving. " Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil the better artist : in the one, we admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries...majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion j Virgil bestows with a careless magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...have less in comparison with one another. Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 pages
...one wo most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commandiug impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generons profosion ; virgil bestows with a careful magnificence: Homer, like the Nile, pours out his... | |
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Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion,... 
