The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Tom 1R.J. Dodsley, 1763 |
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Strona ix
... beautiful young princess any otherwise than full of modesty and reserved- nefs , filent and obedient to her parents , he had falfified the manners of the age of which he wrote in which the fair fex were not per- mitted to make that ...
... beautiful young princess any otherwise than full of modesty and reserved- nefs , filent and obedient to her parents , he had falfified the manners of the age of which he wrote in which the fair fex were not per- mitted to make that ...
Strona xxi
... beautiful paffages . For which purpose , his beft critics and commentators have been confulted and made ufe of , but never quoted without acknowledgment . Befides these af- fiftances , I must inform the reader , that Mr. Spence hath ...
... beautiful paffages . For which purpose , his beft critics and commentators have been confulted and made ufe of , but never quoted without acknowledgment . Befides these af- fiftances , I must inform the reader , that Mr. Spence hath ...
Strona 3
... beautiful a Simplicity that one may safely pronounce it the Work of Virgil ; who being afraid his Father and Family would be turned out of their Eftate at Andes , endeavoured to find a Retreat for his Parents , and caft his Eye upon a ...
... beautiful a Simplicity that one may safely pronounce it the Work of Virgil ; who being afraid his Father and Family would be turned out of their Eftate at Andes , endeavoured to find a Retreat for his Parents , and caft his Eye upon a ...
Strona 6
... beautiful Imitation of the ' Epass of Theocritus , and been ftruck with Admiration of the promifing Genius of its Author . Poffibly the Palamon was his fe- cond Performance ; it is a close Imitation of the fourth and fifth Idyllia of ...
... beautiful Imitation of the ' Epass of Theocritus , and been ftruck with Admiration of the promifing Genius of its Author . Poffibly the Palamon was his fe- cond Performance ; it is a close Imitation of the fourth and fifth Idyllia of ...
Strona 8
... beautiful Verses of Virgil on the fame Subject , Cicero exclaimed to this Purpofe ; Behold another great Genius rifing up amongst us , who will prove a Jecond Lucretius . This Interpretation at once takes . away the Imputation of Vanity ...
... beautiful Verses of Virgil on the fame Subject , Cicero exclaimed to this Purpofe ; Behold another great Genius rifing up amongst us , who will prove a Jecond Lucretius . This Interpretation at once takes . away the Imputation of Vanity ...
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Strona 78 - 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 falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Strona 35 - ... disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the Heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation.
Strona 32 - But ah! Maecenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead...
Strona 319 - 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.
Strona 302 - Thus does the old gentleman give himself up to a loose kind of tattle, rather than endeavour after a just poetical description.
Strona 236 - And through his airy hall the loud misrule Of driving tempest is for ever heard: Here the grim tyrant meditates his wrath; Here arms his winds with all-subduing frost; Moulds his fierce hail, and treasures up his snows. With which he now oppresses half the globe.
Strona 328 - Po In angry waves ; Euphrates hence devolves A mighty flood to water half the east ; And there in gothic solitude reclin'd, The cheerless Tanais pours his hoary. urn.
Strona 5 - A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t' examine every part he came, —Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Strona 331 - 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...