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Side 147
The description of men rising out of the ground is as beautiful a passage as any in Ovid : it strikes the imagination very strongly ; we see their motion in the first part of it , and their multitude in the messis virorum at last .
The description of men rising out of the ground is as beautiful a passage as any in Ovid : it strikes the imagination very strongly ; we see their motion in the first part of it , and their multitude in the messis virorum at last .
Side 153
The transformation at the latter end is wonderfully beautiful . FAB . IX . Ovid has two very good similes on Pentheus , where he compares him to a river in a former story , and to horse in the present . AN ESSAY1 ON VIRGIL'S GEORGICS .
The transformation at the latter end is wonderfully beautiful . FAB . IX . Ovid has two very good similes on Pentheus , where he compares him to a river in a former story , and to horse in the present . AN ESSAY1 ON VIRGIL'S GEORGICS .
Side 155
Precepts of morality , besides the natural corruption of our tempers , which makes us averse to them , are so abstracted from ideas of sense , that they seldom give an opportunity for those beautiful descriptions and images which are ...
Precepts of morality , besides the natural corruption of our tempers , which makes us averse to them , are so abstracted from ideas of sense , that they seldom give an opportunity for those beautiful descriptions and images which are ...
Side 157
Nor is it sufficient to run out into beautiful and diverting digressions ( as it is generally thought ) unless they are brought in aptly , and are something of a piece with the main design of the Georgic ; for they ought to have a ...
Nor is it sufficient to run out into beautiful and diverting digressions ( as it is generally thought ) unless they are brought in aptly , and are something of a piece with the main design of the Georgic ; for they ought to have a ...
Side 161
But though I think there are some few parts in it that are not so beautiful as the rest , I shall not presume to name them , as rather suspecting my own judgment , than I can believe a fault to be in that poem , which lay so long under ...
But though I think there are some few parts in it that are not so beautiful as the rest , I shall not presume to name them , as rather suspecting my own judgment , than I can believe a fault to be in that poem , which lay so long under ...
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