The Works of Virgil, المجلد 1J. Swan, 1806 |
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الصفحة xiv
... Homer was by the Greek , poets . And so near a resemblance there is betwixt the lives of these two famous epic ... Homer is said to have been of very mean parents , such as got their bread by day - labour ; so is Virgil . Homer is said ...
... Homer was by the Greek , poets . And so near a resemblance there is betwixt the lives of these two famous epic ... Homer is said to have been of very mean parents , such as got their bread by day - labour ; so is Virgil . Homer is said ...
الصفحة xxi
... Homer himself . He proposed to use his talent in poetry , only for scaffolding to build a convenient fortune , that he might prosecute , with less interruption , those nobler studies to which his elevated genius led him , and which he ...
... Homer himself . He proposed to use his talent in poetry , only for scaffolding to build a convenient fortune , that he might prosecute , with less interruption , those nobler studies to which his elevated genius led him , and which he ...
الصفحة xxiii
... Homer . The reader will be satisfied of this , if he consults that author in his own language ; for the translation is a great deal more obscure than the original . Whilst Virgil thus enjoyed the sweets of a learned po- privacy , the ...
... Homer . The reader will be satisfied of this , if he consults that author in his own language ; for the translation is a great deal more obscure than the original . Whilst Virgil thus enjoyed the sweets of a learned po- privacy , the ...
الصفحة xli
... Homer had been disfigured by the arbitrary compilers of his works , obliged Tucca and Va- rius to add nothing , nor so much as fill up the breaks he left in his poem . He ordered that his bones should be carried to Naples , in which ...
... Homer had been disfigured by the arbitrary compilers of his works , obliged Tucca and Va- rius to add nothing , nor so much as fill up the breaks he left in his poem . He ordered that his bones should be carried to Naples , in which ...
الصفحة xliv
... Homer . In his Pastorals , he is full of invectives against love : in the Georgics , he appro- priates all the rage of it to the females . He makes Dido , who never deserved that character , lustful and revengeful to the utmost degree ...
... Homer . In his Pastorals , he is full of invectives against love : in the Georgics , he appro- priates all the rage of it to the females . He makes Dido , who never deserved that character , lustful and revengeful to the utmost degree ...
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