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" Homer was the greater genius; Virgil the better artist: in the one, we most admire the man; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ;... "
A Grammar of Elocution: Containing the Principles of the Arts of Reading and ... - Page 85
by Jonathan Barber - 1830 - 344 pages
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners. With an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 352 pages
...inflames his crimes." Better thus : " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues : an enemy, his crimes." careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overllow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed,...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 296 pages
...look upon their maehines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, seattering lightnings, and firing the heavens. Virgil like the same power in his benevolenee, eounselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole ereation."...
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Elements of English Grammar: With a Postscript, Analysis, and an Appendix

Jonathan Morgan - English language - 1814 - 298 pages
...a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows, with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, outpours his riches, with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river, in its banks, with a constant stream." T3941 8i J*ttend to the harmony and melody of the words *. .* and members of a sentence. Those parts...
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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1815 - 382 pages
...inflames his crimes."' Better thus :." A frimd exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy, his crimes." careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have a sensible...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer, scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a censtant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems imselling wilh tho gods, laying...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...appears undisturbed in the midst of the action j disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems...like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, tattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in bis benevolence, counselling...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer, scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...its banks, with a constant stream. And when we look upoe their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering...
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An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ...

John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...Virgil lead us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a 138 POPE'S TRANSLATIONS. boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - English language - 1818 - 266 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows •with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machine*, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus,...
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