The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 5William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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Page 164
... a description . " A Georgic , there- fore , is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress , and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry . " Now , since this science 164 ON VIRGIL'S GEORGICS .
... a description . " A Georgic , there- fore , is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress , and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry . " Now , since this science 164 ON VIRGIL'S GEORGICS .
Page 165
... Georgic , he has run into a set of precepts , which are almost foreign to his subject , in that beautiful account he ... GEORGICS . 165.
... Georgic , he has run into a set of precepts , which are almost foreign to his subject , in that beautiful account he ... GEORGICS . 165.
Page 166
... Georgics , where the reader may see the different ways Virgil has taken to express the same thing , and how much pleasanter every manner of expression is , than the plain and direct mention of it would have been . It is in the second ...
... Georgics , where the reader may see the different ways Virgil has taken to express the same thing , and how much pleasanter every manner of expression is , than the plain and direct mention of it would have been . It is in the second ...
Page 167
... Georgic : for they ought to have a remote alliance , at least to the subject , that so the whole poem may be more ... Georgics that may seem to contradict this observation , besides that in the latter end of the first book , where the ...
... Georgic : for they ought to have a remote alliance , at least to the subject , that so the whole poem may be more ... Georgics that may seem to contradict this observation , besides that in the latter end of the first book , where the ...
Page 168
... Georgic ; and , indeed , this is the part on which the poet must lay out all his strength , that his words may be warm and glowing , and that every thing he de- scribes may immediately present itself , and rise up to the reader's view ...
... Georgic ; and , indeed , this is the part on which the poet must lay out all his strength , that his words may be warm and glowing , and that every thing he de- scribes may immediately present itself , and rise up to the reader's view ...
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