 ... 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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 - 1872 - 786 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 their merit upon »be whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguished excellence... | |
 | Homer - 1877 - 558 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...proportion to his degree in that, we are to admire him. No anthor or man ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...character. Nothing is more absurd and endless than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival,...dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, over excelled all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in Invention, Virgil... | |
 | Homer - 1884 - 500 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...excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider l.im, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1909 - 630 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...the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of tne principal character and distinguishing excellence of each : it is m that we are to consider him,... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - English language - 1909 - 454 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 on their merit upon the whole. We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - Criticism - 1915 - 502 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...in that we are to admire him. No Author or Man ever excell'd all the World in more than one Faculty, and as Homer has done this in Invention, Virgil has... | |
 | Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith - History - 2001 - 276 pages
...said, "Nothing is more absurd or endless than the common method of comparing eminent writers by an opposition of particular passages in them and forming...judgment from thence of their merit upon the whole." I began this study by collecting what seemed to me especially skillful lines of Langland, and then... | |
 | Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - History - 2007 - 238 pages
...their merit upon the whole', Pope wrote elsewhere, focusing now on another all too-familiar contrast: We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal...that we are to admire him . . . No Author or Man ever excell'd all the World in more than one Faculty, and as Homer has done this in Invention, Virgil has... | |
| |
