 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,...  The Iliad of Homer - Página 47por Homer - 1853 - 664 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Hugh Blair - 1809 - 442 páginas
...us with an attractive majefty. Homer fcatters, c* with a generous profufion ; Virgil beftows with ic a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, " pours out his riches with a fudden overflow; " Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a conftant " ftream. And when we look upon... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 346 páginas
...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 ; Virgil bestows with «* careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1809 - 352 páginas
...inflames his crimes." Better thus: " A friend exaggerates, a man's virtues; an enemy, his crimes." careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a rive» jn its banks, with a constant stream."—Periods thus constructed,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 páginas
...other the work : Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil tads us with attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous...his riches with, a boundless overflow ; Virgil like * river in its banks, with a gentle and conitant stream. When we behold their battles, methinks the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 páginas
...other the work : Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil fads us with attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous...like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless ovtrflow ; Virgil like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we behold their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 páginas
...other the work : Homer hurries and transport! us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with a artful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a.boundless overflow ; Virgil... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 páginas
...against him to proceed from so noble a cause as the excess of this faculty. tuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a...and constant stream. When we behold their battles, methinks the two poets resemble the heroes they celebrate : Homer, boundless and irresistible as Achilles,... | |
 | 1813 - 350 páginas
...the •ther the work. Homer hurries and transport* us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty: Homer scatters with a...with a careful magnificence: Homer, like the Nile, poura out his riches with a boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and... | |
 | Jonathan Morgan - 1814 - 298 páginas
...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...with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, outpours his riches, with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river, in its banks, with a constant stream."... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 páginas
...the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil lead us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a...Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a 138 POPE'S TRANSLATIONS. boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and... | |
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