 But let us be ingenuous, my lord, and confess, that while the moderns admire nothing but pomp, and can think nothing great or beautiful, but what is the produce of wealth, they exclude themselves from the pleasantest and most natural images that adorned...  An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer - Page 25by Thomas Blackwell - 1757 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Virgil - 1763 - 376 pages
...ami plainnefs of Evander, and his court. But let us be ingenuous (to ufe the words of a late writer) and confefs, that while the moderns admire nothing...images that adorned the old poetry. State and form difguife man ; and \vealth and luxury difguife nature. Their eflects in wilting are anfwcrThou too,... | |
 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - Latin poetry - 1763 - 372 pages
...and plainnefs of Evander, and his court. But let us be ingenuous (to ufe the words of a late writer) and confefs, that while the moderns admire nothing...beautiful, but what is the produce of wealth, they exclude theinfelves from the pleafanteft and moft natural images that adorned the old poetry. State and form... | |
 | Virgil - 1778 - 478 pages
...and plainnefs of Evander, and his court. But let us be ingenuous (to ufe the words of a late writer) and confefs, that while the moderns admire nothing...images that adorned the old poetry. State and form difguife man ; In ruins there, two mighty towns, behold, 473 Rais'd by our fires-; huge monuments of... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...similies taken from her low, and the ancient manners mean or absurd. But let us be ingenuous, and confess, that while the moderns admire nothing but pomp, and...beautiful but what is the produce of wealth, they exclude themselves from the pleasantest and most natural images that adorn old poetry. State and form disguise... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...similies taken from her low, and the ancient manners mean or absurd. But let us be ingenuous, and confess, that while the moderns admire nothing but pomp, and...beautiful but what is the produce of wealth, they exclude themselves from the pleasantest and most natural images that adorn old poetry. State and form disguise... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...similes taken from her low, and the ancient manners mean or absurd. But let us be ingenuous, and confess, that while the moderns admire nothing but pomp, and...beautiful but what is the produce of wealth, they exclude themselves from the pleasantest and most natural images that adorn old poetry. State and form disguise... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...similes taken from her low, and the ancient manners mean or absurd. But let us be ingenuous, and confess, that while the moderns admire nothing but pomp, and...beautiful but what is the produce of wealth, they exclude themselves from the pleasantest and most natural images that adorn old poetry. State and form disguise... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...from her low, and the ancient manners mean, or absurd. But let us be ingenuous, my lord, and confess, that while the moderns admire nothing but pomp, and...beautiful, but what is the produce of wealth, they exclude themselves from the pleasantest and most natural images that adorned the old poetry. State and form... | |
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