 | 1800 - 572 pages
...the Abbe seems to take up farming just where Virgil hadi left it. Addison defines -ytujyixov to be " the science of husbandry, put into a pleasing dress,...with all the beauties and embellishments of Poetry .-" but the present author extends his descriptions fo the wonders of nature, to median-. leal discoveries,... | |
 | Books - 1800 - 574 pages
...the Abbp seems to take up farming just where Virgil had left it. Addison defines yiupyiitav to be " the science of husbandry, put into a pleasing dress,...with all the beauties and embellishments of Poetry:" but the present author extends his descriptions to the wonders of nature, to median* jpa} discoveries,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 pages
...landscapes, whilst it teaches us ; and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description. " A Georgic, therefore, is some part of the science of husbandry...embellishments of poetry." Now, since this science of busbandry is of a very large extent, the poet sh6ws his skill in singling out such precepts to proceed... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1807 - 1108 pages
...G orge on horseback, worn by the knights of the garter ; a brown loaf. GEORGICK, jir'jik. s. (116). Some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress, and set oft' with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry. — See CONSTHVE. GEORGICK, jor'jik. a. Relating... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...landscapes, whilst it teaches us, and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description. A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry...science of husbandry is of a very large extent, the poet shows his skill in singling out such precepts to proceed on, as are useful, and at the same time most... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...landscapes, whilst it teaches us, and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description. A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry...set off with all the beauties and embellishments of •JU ^ if pcelry. Now, since this science of husbandry is of a very large extent, the poet shows his... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...teaches us, and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description. A Georgic therefore is sntue part of the. science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress, and set off' with ail the beauties and embellishments of poetry. Now, since this- science of husbandry is of a very large... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...aad makes the dryest of its precepts look like a description, " A georgic therefore is some partiof the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress,...science of husbandry is of a very large extent, the poet shows his skill in singling out such precepts to proceed on as are useful, and at the same time most... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...and make» the dryest of its precepts look like в description, " A georgic therefore is some partiof the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress,...embellishments of poetry." Now since this science of husbandry i» of a very large extent, the poet shows his skill in singling out such precept« to proceed on as... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...landscapes, whilst it teaches us; and makes the drycst of its precepts look like a description, " A georgic therefore is some part '.of the science of husbandry...put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the brauties and embellishments of poetry." Now since this science of husbandry is of a very large extent,... | |
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A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress, and set off with all the beauties and embellishments of poetry. 
