 ... him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we are to think...  The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets - Page 161813Full view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particular paffages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguiihing excellence of each: it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...abiurd or eudleft, than the cor.imin method of comparing emin by an oppofuion of particular palTages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguillied excellence of each: it is hi that we are to confuk r him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...ciidkfs, than the common method of comparing eminent writer* by an oppofition of particular paffagcs in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhcd excellence of each: it is in that we arc to confidcr him,' and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...cndlcfs than the common methhd of comparing eminent wiiieu by an oppofition of particular pafTages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diltinguilhed excellence of each : it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 680 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofiiion of particular pafiages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their merit upon the whole. We ou^ht to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and diflinguiihing excellence of each... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...cndlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particular pafTages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and rliftinguifhed excellence of each : it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...endlefs, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an oppofition of particular paffages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their...a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhed excellence of each : it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...writers by an oppofition of particular paffagc-s in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their their merit upon the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhed excellence of each : it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...writers by an oppofition of particular paflages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their their merit upon the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhed excellence oT each : it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...writers by an oppofition of particular paflages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of their their merit upon the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and diftinguifhed excellence of each : it is in t&atvte are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
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