 | Virgil - Didactic poetry, Latin - 1721 - 412 pages
...fomething ยป/' a ruftick Majefty, like that of a Roman Di&ator *t the Plow-Tail. He delivers the meanefl of his Precepts with a kind of Grandeur, he breaks the Clods and toJTei the Dung about with an air of Gracefulitefs. Hit Pregnoftications of the Weather are taken out... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1765 - 378 pages
...fomething of ruftic majefty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plow-tail. He delivers the meaneft of his precepts with a kind of grandeur, he breaks the clods and toffes the dung about with an air of gracefulnefs. His prognoflications of the weather are taken out... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1773 - 326 pages
...fomethi.,g of a ruftic majefty, like that of a Roman diftator at the plow-tail. He delivers the meaneft of his precepts with a kind of grandeur, he breaks the clods and toffes the dung about with an air of gracefulnefs. His prognoftications of the weather are taken out... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...fomething of ruftic majefty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plow-tail. He delivers the meaneft of his precepts with a kind of grandeur ; he breaks the clods and toffes the dung about with an air of gracefalnefs. His prognofticacions of the weather are taken out... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 364 pages
...fomething of ruftic majefty, like that of a Roman diftator at the plough-tail. He delivers the meaneft of his precepts with a kind of grandeur ; he breaks the clods and tofles the dung about with an air of gracefulnefs. His prognoftications of the weather are taken out... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...fomething of a ruftic maj'fty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plough-tail. He delivers the meane-l of his precepts with a kind of grandeur ; he breaks the clods and tofles the dime; about with an air o jracefuloefs. His prognostications of the weather arc taken out... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...fomething of a rultic majcfty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plough-t;.il. He delivers the meaneft of his precepts with a kind of grandeur ; he breaks the clods and tofles the dung about with an air'of gracefulnefs. His prognoftications of the weather lire taken out... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 486 pages
...and in the other, something of a rustic majesty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plough tail. He delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind...weather are taken out of Aratus, where we may see how judici-; ously he has picked out those that are most proper for his husbandman's observation; how he... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 pages
...and, in the other, something of a rustic majesty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plough-tail. He delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind...weather are taken out of Aratus, where we may see liow judiciously he has picked out those that are most proper for his husbandman's observation; how... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...didactick poem, the author has not descended from his dignified manner ; and, as Addison remarks, " He even breaks the clods, and tosses the dung about with an air of gracefulness." There is intrinsick evidence to all who are conversant with the Latin poets, that the Georgicks are... | |
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He delivers the meanest of his precepts with a kind of grandeur, he breaks the clods and tosses the dung about with an air of gracefulness. 
