 ... what kind soever escape them. I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry, who like those in architecture, not being able to come up to the beautiful simplicity of the old Greeks and Romans, have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies...  A Manual of Logic - Page 244by Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1849 - 12 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation, on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to _33neas, in the following words: ' Ovid, (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and .^Eneas)... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to JSneas, in the following words:—" Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and Mneas)... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to ./Eneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and /Eneas) takes it... | |
 | George King (of Upper Holloway.) - 1854 - 94 pages
...members which are G most nearly related. The following sentence is faulty in this respect : " Mr Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to jEneas, in the following words." If the concluding phrase refers to " Mr. Dryden," it ought to have... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to 2Eneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and JEneas)... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to -ZEneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and ^35neas)... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 568 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to JEneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and iEneas)... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to ./Eneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and jEneas) takes it... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Dryden makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to JEneas, in the following words : " Ovid (says he, speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and -3Sncas)... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...have endeavoured to supply its place with all the extravagancies of an irregular fancy. Mr. Drydeu makes a very handsome observation on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to ¿ancas, in the following words : " Ovid," »ays he, speaking of Virgil's liction of Dido and .-Eneas,... | |
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