 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pàgines
...the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling . " To-day," replied the boy. " Why, CHRISTMAS-DAY." " It's Christmas-Day !" said S Preface to the Translation of Homer. РОГЕ то BISHOP АттЕкпикг, IN THE TOWER BEFORE 1IIS... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 pàgines
...the lightning, and firing the heavens; Virgil',- like the same power in hiu benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation." — Dr. Johnson. 8. When the antithesis is of the character in which negation is opposed to affirmation,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1884 - 370 pàgines
...the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counseling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation." Those who have read the present volume, together with its fellow preceding, are prepared to enter,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1893 - 312 pàgines
...the lightnings, and firing the heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counseling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation." The shade of a writer worthy to have been thus elaborately paralleled by Pope with Homer might well... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pàgines
...the lightnings, and firing the heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly (ordering his whole creation. CHAPTER XXVII. FIGURES OF SPEECH. 512. A Figure of Speech is a deviation from the ordinary form of... | |
 | Homer - 1909 - 630 pàgines
...the lightnings, and firing the heavens ; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation. But, after all, it is with great parts, as with great virtues ; they naturally border on some imperfection... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 502 pàgines
...the Lightnings, and firing the Heavens ; Virgil, like the same Power in his Benevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying Plans for Empires, and regularly ordering his whole Creation. But after all, it is with great Parts as with great Virtues, they naturally border on some Imperfection;... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 pàgines
...the Lightnings, and firing the Heavens ; Virgil, like the same Power in his Benevolence, counselling with the Gods, laying Plans for Empires, and regularly ordering his whole Creation. But after all, it is with great Parts as with great Virtues, they naturally border on some Imperfection;... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 pàgines
...the lightnings, and firingthe Heavens : Virgil, like the same powerin his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation. — POPE : Preface to Iliad. Pope gives here a good example of just criticism. The exposition tells... | |
 | Thomas E. Jenkins - 1997 - 283 pàgines
...the lightenings and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counseling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation." A similar comparison might be made between the juristic tradition and philanthropism. 10 Dryden allowed... | |
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... all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer... 
