 It expresses the operations and properties of matter by the actions and passions of such invisible powers as the pagans supposed to be directors of all the motions and events that we see in the universe. The poets pass in a moment from allegory to the...  Nueva ciropedia - Página 88por Andrew Michael Ramsay - 1799Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael) - 1802 - 482 páginas
...events that we see in the universe. The poets pass in a moment from allegory to the literal sense, and from the literal sense to allegory ; from real Gods...condemned by the philosophers. Notwithstanding this multiplication of inferior Deities , these poets however acknowledged, that there was but one supreme... | |
 | Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael) - 1814 - 414 páginas
...events that we see in the universe. The poets pass in a moment from allegory to the literal sense, and from the literal sense to allegory ; from real gods...condemned by the philosophers. Notwithstanding this multiplication of inferior deities, these poets however acknowledge, that theie was but one only supreme... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 páginas
...literal sense to allegory ; from real Gods to fabulous deities ; and this occasions that jumble in their images, that absurdity in their fictions, and...justly condemned by the philosophers. Notwithstanding, however, this multiplication of inferior deities, the poets of antiquity in general believed that there... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 páginas
...events that we see in the universe. The poets pass in a moment from allegory to the literal sense, and from the literal sense to allegory ; from real Gods...fabulous deities ; and this occasions that jumble in their images, that absurdity in their fictions, and that indecorum in their expressions, which are... | |
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