The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Volume 5William Durell & Company, 1811 |
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Page 168
... verse ; and every where else abounds with metaphors , Grecisms , and circumlocutions , to give his verse the greater pomp , and preserve it from sinking into a plebeian style . And herein consists Virgil's master - piece , who has not ...
... verse ; and every where else abounds with metaphors , Grecisms , and circumlocutions , to give his verse the greater pomp , and preserve it from sinking into a plebeian style . And herein consists Virgil's master - piece , who has not ...
Page 169
... verse . The reader is carried through a course of weather , and may beforehand guess whe- ther he is to meet with snow or rain , clouds or sun- shine , in the next description . His descriptions , in- deed , have abundance of nature in ...
... verse . The reader is carried through a course of weather , and may beforehand guess whe- ther he is to meet with snow or rain , clouds or sun- shine , in the next description . His descriptions , in- deed , have abundance of nature in ...
Page 170
... verse . But after all , we are beholden to him for the first rough sketch of a Georgic where we may still discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work ; but if we would see the design enlarged , the figures reformed , the ...
... verse . But after all , we are beholden to him for the first rough sketch of a Georgic where we may still discover something venerable in the antiqueness of the work ; but if we would see the design enlarged , the figures reformed , the ...
Page 172
... verses are not in a greater noise and hurry in the battles of Æneas and Turnus , than And , as in his in the ... verse that ridicules part of a line translated from Hesiod . Audus ara , sere nudus- And we may easily guess at the ...
... verses are not in a greater noise and hurry in the battles of Æneas and Turnus , than And , as in his in the ... verse that ridicules part of a line translated from Hesiod . Audus ara , sere nudus- And we may easily guess at the ...
Page 178
... verse , and fair translations , show How thy own laurel first began to grow ; How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . O mayst thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor ...
... verse , and fair translations , show How thy own laurel first began to grow ; How wild Lycaon , chang'd by angry gods , And frighted at himself , ran howling through the woods . O mayst thou still the noble task prolong , Nor age , nor ...
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