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... Georgics , that notwithstanding the marvellous harmony and gran- deur of the Greek versification , is fcarcely excel- led by Homer himself . Our author's terms and epithets are chofen with fuch propriety , elegance and expreffivenefs ...
... Georgics , that notwithstanding the marvellous harmony and gran- deur of the Greek versification , is fcarcely excel- led by Homer himself . Our author's terms and epithets are chofen with fuch propriety , elegance and expreffivenefs ...
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... Georgics , writing in a language not half fo lofty , fo founding , or fo elegant as the Latin , incapable of admitting many of its beft and boldeft figures , and heavily fettered with the Gothic fhackles of rhyme ! Is not this ...
... Georgics , writing in a language not half fo lofty , fo founding , or fo elegant as the Latin , incapable of admitting many of its beft and boldeft figures , and heavily fettered with the Gothic fhackles of rhyme ! Is not this ...
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... Georgics are the higheft flight of Virgil , and the master - pieces of his genius , excepting always the fourth book of the Æneid . Some of the tranfi- tions with which they are adorned , are the boldest and most daring imaginable , and ...
... Georgics are the higheft flight of Virgil , and the master - pieces of his genius , excepting always the fourth book of the Æneid . Some of the tranfi- tions with which they are adorned , are the boldest and most daring imaginable , and ...
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... Georgics , which is certainly inferior to his Æneid , there are so many grofs mistakes , fo many careless incorrect lines , and fuch wild deviations from his original , as are utterly aftonishing in fo great and true a genius . But ...
... Georgics , which is certainly inferior to his Æneid , there are so many grofs mistakes , fo many careless incorrect lines , and fuch wild deviations from his original , as are utterly aftonishing in fo great and true a genius . But ...
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... Georgics . For the rest I am anfwerable ; and I hope those readers that are able to judge , who are likewife ever moft inclined to pardon , will excufe the smaller faults and inadvertencies that will neceffarily happen in the course of ...
... Georgics . For the rest I am anfwerable ; and I hope those readers that are able to judge , who are likewife ever moft inclined to pardon , will excufe the smaller faults and inadvertencies that will neceffarily happen in the course of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 29 - ... all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer...
Seite 433 - What need words To paint its power? For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove...
Seite 423 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung.
Seite 114 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fading together ; and a little child shall lead them.
Seite 19 - Augustan age. It is remarkable that he is commended by some of the ancients themselves, for the strength of his imagination as to this particular, though in general that is not his character...
Seite 300 - Optima torvae Forma bovis, cui turpe caput, cui plurima cervix, Et crurum tenus a mento palearia pendent ; Tum longo nullus lateri modus ; omnia magna, Pes etiam ; et camuris hirtae sub cornibus aures.
Seite 5 - Perhaps he seem'd above the critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when to examine every part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Seite 398 - I shall give one instance, out of a multitude of this nature that might be found in the Georgics, where the reader may...
Seite 402 - Forth ifluing on a fummer's morn to breathe Among the pleafant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The fmell of grain, or tedded grafs, or kine...
Seite 250 - Media fert tristis sucos tardumque saporem felicis mali, quo non praesentius ullum, pocula si quando saevae infecere novercae, miscueruntque herbas et non innoxia verba, auxilium venit ac membris agit atra venena.