 Masters have 5 found in his Works the best and truest Principles of all their Sciences or Arts, but that the noblest Nations have derived from them the Original of their several Races, though it be hardly yet agreed, Whether his Story be True or Fiction....  Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ... - Page 83edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1842 - 454 pages
...amazing, and the latter more agreeable. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have •o much excelled in their kinds as to have exceeded all...to their two languages, but to their very persons." The first appearance of Homer's works in Greece, was about 120 years before Rome was built; that is,... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - Biography - 1850 - 458 pages
...amazing, and the latter more agreeable. In short, these iwo immortal poets must be allowed to have BO much excelled in their kinds as to have exceeded all...to their two languages, but to their very persons." The first appearance of Homer's works in Greece, was about 1-20 years before Rome was built ; that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...hardly yet agreed, whether his story be true or fiction. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds, as...true poetry, not only to their two languages, but to iheir very persons. And I am apt to believe so much of the true genius of poetry in general, and of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...hardly yet agreed, whether his story be true or fiction. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds, as...to believe so much of the true genius of poetry in general, and of its elevation in these two particulars, that I know not, whether of all the numbers... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...hardly yet agreed, whether his story be true or fiction. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds, as...to believe so much of the true genius of poetry in general, and of its elevation in these two particulars, that I know not, whether of all the numbers... | |
 | Abraham Mills - Greek literature - 1858 - 498 pages
...must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kind, as to have exceeded all comparison, to have extinguished emulation, and in a manner confined true poetry, not only to their own languages, but to their very poems." We are not to be understood as designing to convey our own... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...hardly yet agreed, whether his story be true or fiction. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds, as...I am apt to believe so much of the true genius of Foetry in general, and of its elevation in these two particulars, that know not, whether of all the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...hardly yet agreed, whether his story be true or fiction. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds, as to have exceeded all comparison, to have even e.xt-nguished emulation, and in a manner confined true poetry, not only to their two languages, but... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...hardly yet agreed, whether his story be tree or fiction. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds, as...to believe so much of the true genius of poetry in general, and of its elevation in these two particulars, that I know not, whether of all the numbers... | |
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