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Pagina 42
... Virgil's to follow the train of the Muses ; they piously obeyed the admonition , and were rewarded . Had Virgil attended the bar , his modest and ingenuous virtue would surely have made but a very indifferent figure 42 404 . SPECTATOR .
... Virgil's to follow the train of the Muses ; they piously obeyed the admonition , and were rewarded . Had Virgil attended the bar , his modest and ingenuous virtue would surely have made but a very indifferent figure 42 404 . SPECTATOR .
Pagina 63
... Virgil , was in examining Æneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a modern com- piler of history would be delighted with little more in that divine author than the bare matters of fact . But , notwithstanding this ...
... Virgil , was in examining Æneas his voyage by the map ; as I question not but many a modern com- piler of history would be delighted with little more in that divine author than the bare matters of fact . But , notwithstanding this ...
Pagina 104
... Virgil in imagining what is beautiful ; Ovid in imagining what is new . Our own countryman Milton very perfect in all three respects . Quem tu , Melpomene , semel Nascentem placido lumine videris , Non illum labor Isthmius Clarabit ...
... Virgil in imagining what is beautiful ; Ovid in imagining what is new . Our own countryman Milton very perfect in all three respects . Quem tu , Melpomene , semel Nascentem placido lumine videris , Non illum labor Isthmius Clarabit ...
Pagina 106
... kinds are perhaps Homer , Virgil , and Ovid . The first strikes the imagination wonderfully with what is great , the second with what is beautiful , and the last with what is strange . Reading the Iliad , is like 106 417 . SPECTATOR .
... kinds are perhaps Homer , Virgil , and Ovid . The first strikes the imagination wonderfully with what is great , the second with what is beautiful , and the last with what is strange . Reading the Iliad , is like 106 417 . SPECTATOR .
Pagina 107
... Virgil is ne- ver better pleased than when he is in his elysium , or copying out an entertaining picture . Homer's epi- thets generally mark out what is great ; Virgil's , what is agreeable . Nothing can be more magnificent than the ...
... Virgil is ne- ver better pleased than when he is in his elysium , or copying out an entertaining picture . Homer's epi- thets generally mark out what is great ; Virgil's , what is agreeable . Nothing can be more magnificent than the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 330 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Pagina 366 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Pagina 214 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Pagina 323 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Pagina 142 - Softly on my eyelids laid ; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
Pagina 367 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved Thy prime decree?
Pagina 74 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession. It gives him indeed a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that...
Pagina 270 - When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys; Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise.
Pagina 366 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pagina 318 - Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and...