 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 364 pages
...plainness of a downright countryman, and, in the other, something of a rustic majesty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plough-tail. He delivers the meanest...of Aratus, where we may see how judiciously he has picked out those that are most proper for his husbandman's observation; how he has enforced the expression,... | |
 | 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
...plainness of a downright countryman, and, in the other, something of a rustic majesty, like that of a Roman dictator at the plough-tail. He delivers the meanest...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... | |
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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. 
