 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 424 pages
...truly fuch, is undoubtedly the greateft work which the foul of a man is capable to perform. The defign of it is to form the mind to heroic virtue by example ; it is conveyed in verfe, that it may delight while it inftrufts : the aftion of it is always one, entire, and great.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 366 pages
...truly fuch, is undoubtedly the greateft work which the foul of a man is capable to perform. The defign of it is to form the mind to heroic virtue by example ; it is conveyed in verfe, that it may delight while it inftrufts : the aftion of it is always one, entire, and great.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...fuch, i» undoubtedly the I greatelt work which the foul of a man is capable | to perform. The dcfign of it is to form the mind ' to heroic virtue by example ; it is Conveyed in verfe, that it may delight while it intlrudts : the B&ion of it is always one, entire, and great. The... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...EARL OF MULGRAVE, &C. AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER.6 J\ HEEOICK poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of...perform. The design of it is, to form the mind to heroick virtue by example ; it is conveyed in verse, that it may delight while it in5 Prefixed, in... | |
 | John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...work which the soul of man is capable to perform. The design of it is, to form the mind to heroick virtue by example ; it is conveyed in verse, that it may delight while it in5 Prefixed, in the form of a Dedication, to the Translation of the ^ENEID. 6 John Sheffield, Earl... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...GARTER.6 A. HEROICK poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is t&pable to perform. The design of it is, to form the mind to heroick virtue by example ; it is conveyed in verse, that it may delight while it in5 Prefixed, in... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 408 pages
...OF MULGRAVE, 8$c. AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE G4RTER. ' ' A HEROIC poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of...is conveyed in verse, that it may delight, while it instructs : the action of it is always one, entire, and great. The least and most trivial episodes,... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...MULGRAVE, #c. AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER, OF THE GARTER. "" ' ' •' A HEROIC poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of...is conveyed in verse, that it may delight while it instructs: the action of it is always one, entire, and great. The least and most trivial episodes or... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...EARL OF MTJLGRAVE,* &c. i AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. A HEROIC poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of...to perform. The design of it is to form the mind to * Mulgrave's early and intimate connection with our author has been often noticed in the course of... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...EARL OF MULGRAVE,* &c. AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. A HEROIC poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of...to perform. The design of it is to form the mind to * Mulgrave's early and intimate connection with our author has been often noticed in the course of... | |
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A HEROIC poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform. 
