 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...following passage from Pope's preface to his Homer, beautifully exemplifies the rule we Are now giving. ' Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist ; in the one, we must admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...he written on the subject of criticism, would perhaps have afforded the example of a correct one. 5. Homer was the greater genius; Virgil the better artist:...one, we most admire the man; in the other, the work. IJomer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...have less iu comparison with one another. 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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1840 - 874 pages
...contrast. The following passage from Pope's Preface to his Homer beautifully exemplifies this figure :— "Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist: in the one we admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hur•ies us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...EXAMPLES. 1. By honor, and dishonor; by evil report, and good report; as deceivers, and yet true. 2. Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist : in the one, we admire the man ; in the other, the work. 3. They have mouths — but they speak not : Eyes have they... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1843 - 326 pages
...inflames his crimes." Better thus : " A friend exaggera' is a man's virtues ; an enemy, his crimes." generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out hts riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream."—Periods... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...judgment. The former is more the gift of nature; the latter, more the product of culture and art. 5. Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist: in the one we more admire the man; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...better artist : in one, we most admire the man ; in the other — the work ; Homer— hurries us with commanding impetuosity ; Virgil — leads us with...with a generous profusion! Virgil — bestows, with • careful magnificence. 4. What man could do, is done already; (8) HEAVEN — and (5) earth — will... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...agreeable concordance of sounds. 3. Homer — was the greater genius ; Virgil — the better artist : in one, we most admire the man ; in the other — the work ; Homer — hurries us with commanding impetuosity ; Virgil — leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer — scatters with a... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 390 pages
...agreeable concordance of sounds. 3. Homer — was the greater genius; Virgil — the better artist: in one, we most admire the man ; in the other — the work; Homer — hurries us with commanding impetuosity ; Virgil — leads us with an attractive majesty. Homes — scatters with a... | |
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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,... 
