 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...him, and in proportion to his degree in that .we are to admire him. No author or man evv excelled led all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer...in Judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; orthat Virgil wanted Invention, becaufe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...in judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...done this in Invention, Virgil has in Judgment. Not (hat we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree, or that... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we arc to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...in judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...it is in that we arc to confidcr him,' and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invention, Virjjil has in judgment. Not that we are to thick Homer wanted judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...to his degree in that vr art to udmire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in tV.orc than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invention , Virgil lias in judgment. Nut that we arc to think Homer wanted judgment, bccaufe Virgil liad it in a more... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we r.re to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...in Judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, bccaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent deeree, or that Virgil wanted Invention, becaufs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...in Judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...in Judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, becaufe... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more...judgment *. Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, * This is a commonly received opinion. It might, perhaps, however be proved, as has been... | |
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We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each; it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man... 
