 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...paraUehjthat thefe Criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firfti a confederation which whoever compares thefe two Poets ought to have...other; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the Mneis to thofe of the tiiud, for the fame rea* fons which might fet the Ody/es above the Mneis: as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...undermining the foundation : One would imagine by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe Criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft...other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the -^Eneis to thofe of the Iliad, for ths fame reafons which might fet the Qdyfley above the jEneis :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...undermining the foundation ; One would imagine by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe Criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft...thefe two Poets, ought to have always in his eye. Some accuse him for the fame things which they over ook or praife in the other ; as when they prefer the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 368 pages
...that thefe Criticks never fo much .as. heard of Homer's having written firfl ; a confitle» ration which whoever compares thefe two Poets'^ ought to have always in his eye Some 'accure hjni for the fame things which they over ook nr praife in the other ; as when they prefer t''e... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...parallels, that thefe Criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft ; a confederation which whoever compares thefe two Poets, ought to have...other, as when they prefer the fable and moral of the ./Eneis to thofe of the Iliad, for the fame reafons which might fet the Odyfley above the ./Eneis :... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...written f Hefioi, Op. et Dier. lib. i. ver. 135, eft; firft ; a confideration which whoever comparts thefe two Poets, ought to have always in his eye. Some accufe him for the fame ihings which they overlook or praife in the other, as when they prefer the fable and moral of the ^Eneis... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...undermining the foundation : One would imagine by the whole courfe of their parallels, that thefe criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft; a confideration which whoever compares c tkfiod, Op. et Dier. lib. i, ver. 155, etc. MoMER'S ILIAD, 37* tliefe two Poets, ought to have always... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...Poets, ought to have always in his eye. Some-accufe him for the fame things which they overlook and praife in the other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the .^Eneis to thofe of the Iliad, for the fame reafons which might fet the Odyffey above the ^Eneis: as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...courfe of their parallels, that thefe criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft ia confideration which whoever compares thefe two poets,....other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the JEneis to thole of the Iliad, for the famereafons which might fet the Odyfles above the ^Eneis i as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 408 pages
...parallels, that thefe criticks never fo much as heard of Homer's having written firft : a conlideration which whoever compares thefe two poets, ought to have...other ; as when they prefer the fable and moral of the j*Eneis to thofe of the Iliad, for the fame reafons which might fet the Odyfles above the ./Eneis :... | |
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OdyfTes above the yEneis : as that the. hero is a wifer man ; and the action of the one more beneficial to his country than that of the other : or... 
