 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 454 pages
...majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Hemer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look up on their machines. Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1845 - 456 pages
...generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out nis riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machines. Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus,... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 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. 2. I am found, said virtue, in the vale, and illuminate the mountains. I cheer the cottager at his... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 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." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have a sensible... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 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 confessum quoties mutat latns,... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1848 - 460 pages
...arrangement, and the perfect conformity of the figures he uses to his purpose. Behold the one, "like hiß own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens!" See the other, as he gradually progresses in his strength, grandenr, and heauty! Both are read with... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1835 - 320 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence Homer, like the Nile,...look upon their machines, Homer seems, like his own Jupiler in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens ; Virgil,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1854 - 244 pages
...with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, poure out his riches with a sudden overflow; VirgiL like a river in its banks, with a constant stream, When we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty*1. Homer scatters with a generous profusion'; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence^. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow' ; Vir • gil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream*". 6. They, through faith, subdued... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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 'vith a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. And when we look... | |
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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 ;... 
