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" 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 Iliad of Homer - Page xxxii
by Homer - 1796 - 294 pages
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...character and diftinguifhing excellence of each: It is in that we are to confider 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 4ias done this in invention, Virgil has...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...chara&er and diftinguifhing excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author...more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invent 'ion , Virgil has in judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, becaufe Virgil...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...character and diftinguifhing excellence of each : It is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled all the world in more than oae faculty ; and as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in judgment. Not that we are to think...
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The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2

John Newbery - Poetry - 1969 - 394 pages
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The Works of Virgil: In Latin & English. The Aeneid, Volume 2

Virgil - 1778 - 526 pages
...that can juftly be faid on the fubjeft is comprehended in the following excellent words of Pope : " No author or man, ever excelled all the world, in...in judgment. Not that we are to think Homer wanted jadgment becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree ; or that Virgil wanted invention becaufe Homer...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...excellence of each : It is in tliat we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that \ve are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled...as Homer has done this in invention, Virgil has in ludgment* Not that we are to think Homer wanted judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree;...
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Biographia Classica: The Lives and Characters of the Greek and ..., Volume 1

Edward Harwood - Authors, Greek - 1778 - 412 pages
...excelled. VIRGIL has baen often corrfpared vtithHomer, and the Merits of thefe Poets frequently canvaffed. No Author, or Man, ever excelled all the World in...done this in Invention, Virgil has in Judgment. Not tha* we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent Degree ; or that...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer. The Iliad -v.37-38 Pope's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...charafter and diftinguiming excellence of each : it is in that we are to conf:der him, and in proportion to his degree in that .we are to admire him. No author or man ever excelled •led all the world in more than one faculty; and as Homer has done this in Invention, Virgil has...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 35

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...charafter and diftinguiming excellence of each i it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that .we are to admire him. No author or man evv excelled led all the world in more than one faculty ; and as Homer has done this in Invention,...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...character and diftinguiihing excellence of each: it is in that we are to confider him, and in proportion to his degree in that we are to admire him. No author...done this in Invention, Virgil has in Judgment. Not (hat we are to think Homer wanted Judgment, becaufe Virgil had it in a more eminent degree, or that...
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