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... Virgil , the discriminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of Virgil difficult ...
... Virgil , the discriminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of Virgil difficult ...
Page 183
... Virgil would not pretend to prescribe rules for that which depends not on the husband- man's care , but the ... Virgil's meaning , and intelligible to everybody ; and when to sow the corn is a needless addition . ' The care of sheep , of ...
... Virgil would not pretend to prescribe rules for that which depends not on the husband- man's care , but the ... Virgil's meaning , and intelligible to everybody ; and when to sow the corn is a needless addition . ' The care of sheep , of ...
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... Virgil's , no more than the sense of the pre- cedent couplet ; so , again , he interpolates Virgil with that and the round circle of the year to guide powerful of blessings , which thou strew'st around . A ridiculous Latinism , and an ...
... Virgil's , no more than the sense of the pre- cedent couplet ; so , again , he interpolates Virgil with that and the round circle of the year to guide powerful of blessings , which thou strew'st around . A ridiculous Latinism , and an ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote