 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1714 - 382 pàgines
...have now Mr. Dry/ten's Don Sebaftiim before me, in which I find frequent Allufions to Ancient Hiftory, and the old Mythology of the Heathen. It is not very natural to fappofe a King of Portugal would be borrowing Thoughts out of Ovid's Metamcrphofis when he talked even... | |
 | 1785 - 772 pàgines
...have now Mr. Dryden's Don Sebaftian before me, in which I find frequent allufions to ancient hiltory, and the old mythology of the heathen. It is not very natural to fuppofe a king of Portugal would be borrowing thoughts out of Ovid's Metamorphofes, when he talked... | |
 | 1804 - 498 pàgines
...own work; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded his huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...natural to suppose a king of Portugal would be borrowing thoughts-out of Ovid's Metamorphoses when he talked even to those of his own court ; but to allude... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pàgines
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...and the old mythology of the heathen. It is not very patural to suppose a king of Portugal would be borrowing thoughts out of Ovid's Metamorphoses when... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 370 pàgines
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded his huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...allusions to ancient history, and the old mythology of the heather*. It is not very natural to suppose a king of Portugal would be borrowing thoughts out of Ovid's... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 358 pàgines
...own work ; Jove was not more With intant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded his huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...now Mr. Dryden's Don Sebastian before me, in which I fmd frequent allusions to ancient history, and the old mythology of the heathen. It is not very natural... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 486 pàgines
...own work; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see it roll Along the vast abyss. Cleon. My mother would have had my youth brought up To spin with girls in Sparta. Crat. Well said,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 462 pàgines
...dialogue! On this last topic Addison makes the following observations, in the "Guardian," No. 110. " I have now Mr Dryden's " Don Sebastian" before me, in which I find frequent allusions to ancient poetry, and the old mythology of the heathens. It is not very natural to suppose a king of Portugal... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 476 pàgines
...own work; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see it roll Along the vast abyss. Cleon. My mother would have had my youth brought up To spin with girls in Sparta. Crat. Well said,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 pàgines
...own work; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see it roll Along the vast abyss. Cleon. My mother would have had my youth brought up To spin with girls in «Sparta. Crat. Well said,... | |
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As Dryden's Cleomenes is acquainted with the Copernican hypothesis two thousand years before its invention. I am pleas'd with my own work; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give... 
