 This is a field in which no succeeding poets could dispute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. For...  The Works of the British Poets - Page ivby Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention- in having...judgment in having contracted it, For when the mode of Jearning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner : it then became... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...fucceediug poets could difpute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having...circle, but for their judgment in having contracted it. . Fpr when the mode of learning ing changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in a plainer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer j and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this Head, are by no means for their invention in having...the mode of learning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it then became as reafbnable in the more modern poets to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer ; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in .having...the mode of learning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it then became as reafonable in the more modern poets to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 pages
...fuccceding poets could difpute with Homer ; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having...enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contrafted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 436 pages
...whatever commendations have been allowed them on- this head, are by no means for their in-1 vention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment...the mode of learning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it then became as reasonable in theHOMER'S ILIAD. 357 more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 462 pages
...fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer ; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having...enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contrafted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having...the mode of learning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in a plainer manner ; it then became as reafonable in the more modern poets to... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...fucceeding poets could difpute with Homer; and whatever commendations have been allowed them on this head, are by no means for their invention in having...enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contrafted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and fcience was delivered in... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...allowed them on thi* head, arc by no means for their invention in' having enlarged hi* circle, hut for their judgment in having contracted it. For when...became as reafonable in the more modern poets to lay it aCde, as it was in Homer to make ufc of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftance for Virgil,... | |
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