| Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...we daily fee pradHs'd in the cafe of Italian opera's) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majctty of found, than in any other language or poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allow'd by the criticks to be copied but faintly by Vir~ fil himfelf, tho' they are fo jull to afcribe... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...diligence as we daily fee practifed in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majefty of found, than in any other language or...poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the criticks to be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, though they are fo juft to afcribe it to the nature... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...diligence as we daily fee practifed in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majefty of found, than in any other language or...poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the criticks to be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, though they are fo juft to afcribe it to the nature... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 368 pages
...diligence as we daily fee pra&ifed in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majefty of found, than in any other language or...poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the criticks to be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, though they are fo juft to afcribe it to the nature... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...daily fee practifed in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and rnajefty of found, than in any other language or poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the critiçks to be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, though they are fo juft to afcribe it to the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...diligence awe daily fee pra&iied in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majefty of found, than in any other language or...poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the criticks : • be copied but faintly by Virgil himfclf, though they arc fo juft to afcribe it to the... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...diligence as we daily fee praftifed in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majefty of found, than in any other language or...poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allowed by the criticks to be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, though they are fo juft to afcribe it to the nature... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...numbers is allowed by the criticks tp be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, tho' 364 PREFACE TO they are fo juft to afcribe it to the nature of the Latin tongue : Indeed the Greek has fome advantages both from the natural Jound of its •words* and the turn and cadence of its wfe, which... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...diligence as we daily fee praftifed in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majefty of found, than in any other language or...critics to be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, tho' they are fo juft to afcribe it to the nature of the Latin tongue : Indeed the Greek has fome advantages... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...diligence as we daily fee praftifed in the cafe of Italian Operas) will find more fweetnefs, variety, and majefty of found, than in any other language or poetry. The beauty of his numbers is allow, ed by the criticks to be copied but faintly by Virgil himfelf, though they are fo juft to afcribc... | |
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