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" In the works of the two authors we may read their manners and natural inclinations, which are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, sedate temper; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of fire. The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts... "
The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and ... - Página 20
por John Dryden - 1760
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Fables Antient and Modern: Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ...

John Dryden - 1713 - 614 páginas
...read their Manners, and mtural Inclinations, which are wholly different, Virgil was of a quiet, ftdite Temper; Homer was violent, Impetuous, and full of...Expreffions, which his Language, and the Age in which he liv'd, allow'd him; Homer's Invention was more1 Virgil's more confin'd : So that if Homer had not led...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1767 - 392 páginas
...their manners, and natural inclinations, which are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, fedate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of...rapid in his thoughts, and took all the liberties berties both of numbers, and of expreffions, which his language, and the age in which he lived, allowed...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 páginas
...their manners, and natural inclinations, \vhich are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, fedate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of...invention was more copious, Virgil's more confined : fa that if Homer had not led the way, it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry : for nothing...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volumen15

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 páginas
...their manners, and natural inclinations, which are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, fedate temper; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of...liberties, both of numbers and of expreffions, which hie language, and the age in which he lived, allowed him : Homer's invention was more copious, Virgil's...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 páginas
...wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, fedate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of fare. The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts,...and took all the liberties, both of numbers and of exprefllons, which his language, and the age in which he lived, allowed him : Homer's invention was...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volumen6

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 páginas
...read their manners, and natural inclinations which are wholly different. Virgil wa> of a quiet, fedate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of...and took all the liberties, both of numbers and of expreffiotfe, which his language, and the age in which he lived, allowed him : Homer's invention was...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volumen6

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 páginas
...Virjtl was of a quiet, fedate temper ; Homer was Ttolent, impetuous, and full of fire. The chief ttlem of Virgil was propriety of thoughts, and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in hi> tiaajhts, and took all the liberties, both of numfers nd of expreffions, which his language, and...
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Dryden. Smyth. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 páginas
...their manners, and natural inclinations, which are wholly ditferent. Virgil 'was of a quiet, fedate temper; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of...and took all the liberties both of numbers and of eipreffions, which his language, and the age in which he lived, allowed him: Homer's invention was...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now ..., Volumen3

John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...their manners, and natural inclinations, which are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, sedate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of...thoughts, and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his antagonist's coarseness, but not his strength. Collier replied ; for contest was his delight ; he was...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now ..., Volumen3

John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...their manners, and natural inclinations, which are wholly different. Virgil was of a quiet, sedate temper ; Homer was violent, impetuous, and full of...thoughts, and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his antagonist's coarseness, but not his strength. Collier replied; for contest was his delight; he was...
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