 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1909 - 594 pàgines
...in the order they were written./ folio xxxix, 407 pages. Dedication, p. iii. PONSONBY A. LYONS. But fuppofe that Homer and Virgil were the only of their...Nature was fo much worn out in producing them, that me is never able to bear the like again; yet the 1 Alluding to Rochester's well-known couplet : For... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pàgines
...Virgil were the only of their species, and that Nature was so much worn out in producing them, that she is never able to bear the like again, yet the example only holds in heroic poetry: in tragedy and satire, I offer myself to maintain against some of our modern critics,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pàgines
...commerce, makes ti»' common riches of learning, as it does ¡of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that Nature was so much worn out in producing them, that she is never able to bear the like again, yet the example... | |
 | 302 pàgines
...(Urbana, 1940). 17. Dryden, Essays, ed. Watson, II, pp. 73—74. 1 8. Ibid., pp. 80-8 1. 19. "But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that nature was so much worn out in producing them that she was never able to bear the like again; yet the example... | |
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For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other: and mutual borrowing and commerce makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government. 
