 | Joseph Addison - 1765 - 378 ページ
...not fo beautiful as the reft, I mall not prefume to name them, as rather fufpedting my own judgment, than I can believe a fault to be in that poem, which lay fo long under Virgil's correction, and had his laft hand put to it. The firft Gcorgic was probably... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1773 - 326 ページ
...fo beautiful as the teft, I fltall not prefume to name them, as rather fufpefting my own judgment, than I can believe a fault to be in that Poem, which lay fo long under Vir. gifs correftion, and had his laft hand put to it. The firft Georgicwzs probably... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 ページ
...not fo beautiful as the reft, 1 mall not prefume to name them, as rather fufpeflmg my own judgment, than I can believe a fault to be in that poem, which lay fo long under Virgil's correction, and had his laft hand put to it. The firlt Géorgie was probably... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 364 ページ
...fo beautiful as the reft, I fhall not prefume to name them ; as rather fufpefting my own judgment, than I can believe a fault to be in that Poem, which lay fo long under Virgil's correftion, and had his laft hand put to it. The firft Georgic was probably... | |
 | Virgil - 1803 - 364 ページ
...prelude to the yEneis, and very well shewed what the poet could do in the description of what was really great, by his describing the mock-grandeur of an insect...verse that ridicules part of a line translated from Ilesiod — Nudus ara, sere nudus And we may easily guess at the judgement of this extraordinary critic,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 ページ
...not so beautiful as the rest, I shall not presume to name them, as rather suspecting my own judgment, than I can believe a fault to be in that poem, which...author's lifetime ; for we still find in the scholiasts averse that ridicules part of a line translated from Hesiod. Nudas ara, sere nudus And we may easily... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 ページ
...endeavour to point out its imperfections, if it has any. But though to name1' Was probably biirtesqueh in the author's lifetime; for we still find in the...that ridicules part of a line translated from Hesiod. Nudas ara, sere nudun And we may easily guess at the judgment of this extraordinary critic, whoever... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 484 ページ
...the poet could do in the description of what was really great, by his describing the mock grandeur of an insect with so good a grace. There is more pleasantness...Nudus ara, sere nudus: And we may easily guess at the judgment of this extraordinary cntic, whoever he was, from his censuring this particular precept. We... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 504 ページ
...the poet could do in the description of what was really great, by his describing the mock grandeur of an insect with so good a grace. There is more pleasantness...Nudus ara, sere nudus: And we may easily guess at the judgment of this extraordinary critic, whoever he was, from his censuring this particular precept.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 ページ
...he gives us about the middle of this book, than in all the spacious walks and water-works of Kapin. The speech of Proteus, at the end, can never be enough...verse that ridicules part of a line translated from Ilesiod — Nudus ara, sere nudux: And we may easily guess at the judgment of this extraordinary critic,... | |
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After this particular account of the beauties in the Georgics, I should, in the next place, endeavour to point out its imperfections, if it has any. But, though I think there are some few parts in it that are not so beautiful as the rest, I shall not... 
