 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." This regular and artificial... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty: Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows mance assumed the air of istory ; boundless overflow, Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we behold... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...leads us with an attractive majesty: Homer scatters with a generous profusion, Virgil bestows with л 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 behold... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - Elocution - 1881 - 152 pages
..."Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty'. Homer scatters with a generous profu'sion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence'. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow'; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream'. — And when we look... | |
 | John Millard (elocution master in the City of Lond. sch.) - Elocution - 1882 - 274 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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.' 69. Exceptions to the... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty'. Homer scatters with a generous profu'sion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence'. Homer/ like the Nile/ pours out his riches with a sudden overflow'; Virgil/ like a river in its banks/ with a constant stream'. Homer seems/ like his... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1884 - 298 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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." A style characterized... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." This regular and artificial... | |
 | English language - 1888 - 576 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 sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. — Pope's Preface to... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin language - 1889 - 530 pages
...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 behold their battles, methinks the two poets resemble the heroes they celebrate.... | |
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Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist. In one we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty... 
