 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil hestows 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." This picture, however,... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1854 - 504 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. When we look up on their... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 pages
...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty*1. Homer scatters with a generous profusion'; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence^. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow' ; Vir • gil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream*". 6. They, through... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 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 'vith a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. And when we look... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1856 - 652 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 i sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. And when we look upon... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...bestows with a careful masmificence: Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches •with a boundless overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we behold their battles, methinks the two poets resemble the heroes they celebrate... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 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'; Vir , gil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream". 6. They, through faith,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 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... | |
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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... 
