 | William Warburton - 1837 - 720 pages
...third: for just as Virgil rivaled Homer, so Milton was the emulator of both. He found Homer possessed of the province of MORALITY; Virgil of POLITICS; and...nothing left for him, but that of RELIGION. This he seized, as ambitious to share with them in the government of the poetic world: and by means of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...Milton," says Warburton, with his usual love of bringing every thing into system, " found Homer possessed of the province of Morality ; Virgil, of Politics...nothing left for him, but that of Religion. This he seized, as aspiring to share with them in the government of the poetic world ; and by means of the... | |
 | Governess - 1855 - 884 pages
...fight, Sfc.] " As Virgil rivalled Homer, so Milton was the emulator of both. He found Homer possessed of the province of morality, Virgil of politics, and...nothing left for him but that of religion. This he seized, as ambitious to share with them in the government of the poetic world ; and by the means of... | |
 | John Walter Good - 1913 - 338 pages
...species of poetry : for just as Virgil rivalled Homer, so Milton emulated both. He found Homer possessed of the province of Morality, Virgil of Politics, and...nothing left for him but that of Religion. This he seized as aspiring to share with them in the Government of the Poetic world; and by means of the superior... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...of epic poetry. For just as Virgil rivaled Homer, so Milton emulated both. He found Homer possessed of the province of morality, Virgil of politics, and...nothing left for him but that of religion. This he seised, as aspiring to share with them in the government of the poetic world; and by means of the superior... | |
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Milton was the emulator of both. He found Homer possessed of the province of MORALITY ; Virgil of POLITICS : and nothing left for him, but that of RELIGION. 
