 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 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 hanks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 260 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 strenm." — Periods thus constructed,... | |
 | Abraham Mills, Hugh Blair - English language - 1838 - 372 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 bank, with a constant stream. And when we look upon their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 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 it.< banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1840 - 314 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. And when we look upon... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 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." — Periods thus constructed,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, Charles Fox - English language - 1841 - 290 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." — Periods thus constructed,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 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. EXERCISES ON THE RISING... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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. And when we look upon... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...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. And when we look upon... | |
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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... 
