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" The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments. "
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 375
by Thomas Thomson - 1855
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The works of Virgil rendered into Engl. prose, with intr. [&c.] by J ...

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1871 - 304 pages
...everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained. He imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that...with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments." BOOK I. i — 42. The subjects of the four Georçics. The invocation of the heavenly powers, especially...
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The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the ...

Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...poet leads us through the appearances of things, as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own...with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments." 9. In describing scenes of a gay, smiling, or quiet nature', such as the charms of country life', a...
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From Thomas the Rhymer to Richard Gall

James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 pages
...of things as they are sueeessively varied by the vieissitudes of the year; and imparts to us so mueh of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with...share in the entertainment; for he is assisted to reeolleet and to eombine, to arrange his diseoveries, and to amplify the sphere of his eontemplation."...
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The Works of Virgil

Virgil - 1883 - 340 pages
...everything presented to its view, whatever there is on which unagination can delight to be detained. He imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm, that...with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments." BOOK I. I — 4a. The subjects of the four Georgies. The invocation of the heavenly powers, especially...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 490 pages
...as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of their enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments. . . . His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images...
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of their enthusiasm, that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments. . . . His diction is in the highest degree florid and luxuriant, such as may be said to be to his images...
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Johnsoniana: Life, Opinions, and Table-talk of Doctor Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of u 2 the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm thai our thoughts expand with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments. GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON.—His...
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order with Copious Illustrations ...

George Crabb - English language - 1904 - 870 pages
...appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparta to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with bis imagery. JOHNSON. I'll !ti:M', EXPEDITIOUS, PROMPT. ALL these terms mark the quality of quickness...
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Lives of the English Poets: Swift-Lyttelton

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own...expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments a. Nor is the naturalist without his part in the entertainment ; for he is assisted to recollect and...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - Literary Criticism - 696 pages
...poet leads ut through the appearances of things, as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own...with his imagery, and kindle with his sentiments." The decision of impartial criticism is pronounced on the poems of Young; and a very just and glowing...
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