 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...images, which however are fo manag'd as not to overpower the main one. His luniks are like piŁtures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable to the original, but is a Ifo fet off with occasional ornaments and profpefts. The fame will account for his manner of heaping... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 368 pages
...in^ tervention of a Deity to fave the probability. It is owing to the fame vaft invention, that h?s Similes have been thought too exuberant and full of...but is alfo fet off with occafional ornaments and profpe&s. The fame will account for for his manner of heaping a number of comparifons together in one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...to that fingle circumftance upon which the comparifon is grounded : It runs out into embellifhments of additional images, which however are fo managed...but is alfo fet off with occafional ornaments and profpects. The fame will account for his manner of heaping a number of comparifons together in one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...to that iingle circumftance upon which the comparifon is grounded : It runs out into embelliihments of additional images, which however are fo managed...but is alfo fet off with occafional ornaments and profpects. The fame will account for his manner of heaping a number of comparifons together in one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...to that fmgle circumfrance upon which the comparifon is grounded : It runs out into embel. lifhments of additional images, which however are fo managed...but is alfo fet off with occafional ornaments and profpeŁts. The fame will account for for his manner of heaping a number of comparifons together in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...to that fingle circumftance upou which the comparifon is grounded : It runs out into cmbcllifhments of additional images, which however are fo managed...proportion given agreeable to the original, but is allb fet off with occarioniJ ornaments and profpcds. The fame will account for his manner of heaping... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...to that tingle circumftance upon which the comparifon is grounded: it runs out into embelliflunents of additional images, which however are fo managed...proportion given agreeable to the original, but is alfo lfet oft" with occafional ornaments and profpects. The fame will account for his manner of heaping... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...to that iinglc circumftance upon which the comparifon. is grounded : it runs out into cmbellifhmcnts of additional images, which however are fo managed as not to overpower, the main one. Hisfimiles are like pictures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...to that fingle circumftance upon which the comparifon is grounded : It runs out into embellifhments of additional images, which however are fo managed...but is alfo fet ofF with occafional ornaments and profpecls. The fame will account for his manner of heaping a number of comparifons together in one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...to that tingle circumilance upon which the comparifon is grounded : it runs out into embellifhments of additional images, which however are fo managed...not to overpower the main one. His fimiles are like piftures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable to the original, but... | |
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His similes are like pictures, where the principal figure has not only its proportion given agreeable to the original, but is also set off with occasional ornaments and prospects. 
