 ... 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
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 520 pages
...merit upon the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in thai we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty :... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming...a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each ; it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an iors she fires with animated sounds ; Pours balm into...from his bed, Sloth unfolds her arms and wakes, Li distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming...a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Homer - 1849 - 582 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming a judgment from thence of then- merit upon the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming...whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principnl character and distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming...a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming...a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...merit upon the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that \vo are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty: and as... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd or endless, than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them, and forming...a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree... | |
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