...harmony of versification. " Addison, in an Essay on the Georgics, says, " Herein consists Virgil's masterpiece, who has not only excelled all other poets, but even himself, in the language of the Georgics, where we receive more strong and lively ideas of things from his words than we would...

...our purpose to show) on the way in which the pomp and periphrases are applied. Addison perceived that 'we receive more strong and lively ideas of things...than we could have done from the objects themselves,' yet he does not succeed in reproducing this quality in his translation (of the fourth Georgic) to anything...

...the sublime seems to leave things behind. In Virgil's Georgics, Addison writes in his early essay, 'we receive more strong and lively ideas of things...they would have been by the very sight of what he describes'.76 Addison would expand on this insight in the 'Pleasures of the Imagination' series: 'Words,...

...lively Ideas than the Sight of the Things themselves" echoes Addison's earlier reading of Virgil's poem, "where we receive more strong and lively Ideas of things from his words . . . and find our Imaginations more affected by his Descriptions, than they wou'd have been by the...