 We ought to have a certain knowledge of the principal character and distinguishing excellence of each: it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man...  The Works of the British Poets - Page viby Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man over sh history, viz., the period of the parliamentary war, having heen attracted by the moral grandcur because Virgil has it in a more eminent degree, or that Virgil wanted Invention, because Homer possessed... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are inters, he yet pretended to the protection of NTot that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, because Virgil has it in a more eminent deirree, or... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1884 - 370 pages
...excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all...judgment; not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, because Virgil has it in a more eminent degree, or that Virgil wanted invention, because Homer possessed... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1889 - 530 pages
...excellence of each : it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all...; not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, because Virgil has it in a more eminent degree, or that Virgil wanted invention, because Homer possessed... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 pages
...excellence of each ; it is in that we are to consider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all...judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, because Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention, because Homer possessed... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 502 pages
...consider him, and in proportion to his Degree 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...Judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, because Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted Invention, because Homer possest... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 pages
...consider him, and in proportion to his Degree 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...Judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, because Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted Invention, because Homer possest... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1917 - 486 pages
...formal comparison of the two ancient epics on the basis of this contrast. "No author or man," he says, "ever excelled all the world in more than one faculty;...in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we think that Homer wanted judgment, because Virgil had it in a more eminent degree; or that Virgil wanted... | |
 | Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander, Katrin Ettenhuber - 2007 - 238 pages
...him, and in proportion to his degree 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...Judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, because Virgil had it in a more eminent degree; or that Virgil wanted Invention, because Homer possest... | |
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