| Virgil - 1721 - 412 páginas
...Metaphors, but not fo daring as this ; for Humane Thoughts and PaJJions may be more naturally afcriPd to a Bee, than to an inanimate Plant. He who reads over the Pleafures of a Country Life, as they are defcrib'd by Virgil in the latter end of this Book, can fcarce be of Virgil'/ Mind in preferring even... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1773 - 326 páginas
...laft Georgic has indeed as many metaphors, but not fo daring as this; ft r human thoughts and psflions may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, than to an...reads over the pleafures of a country life, as they aredefcribed by Yirgil in the latter end of this this hook, can fcarce be of Virgip* mind in preferring... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1777 - 322 páginas
...may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, thaa to an inanimate plant. He who reads over the pteafurei pleafures of a country life, as they are defcribed...of Virgil's mind in preferring even the life of a Phillofopher to it. We may, I think, read the Poet's clime in his rfefcription, for he ieems to have... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 páginas
...iaft Georgic has indeed as many metaphors, but not fo daring as this; for human thoughts and paflions may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, than to an...defcribed by Virgil in the latter end of this Book, can fcaree be of Virgil's mind m preferring even the life of a philofopher to it. We may, I think, read... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 942 páginas
...laft Georgic has indeed as many metaphors, but not fo daring as this ; for human thoughts and paffions may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, than to an...life, as they are defcribed by Virgil in the latter e nd of this Book, can fcarce be of Virgil's mind in preferring -even the life of a philofopher to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 366 páginas
...laft Georgichas indeed as many metaphors, but not fo daring as this ; for human thoughts and paffions may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, than to an...pleafures of a country life, as they are defcribed by Virgll in the latter end of this Book, can fcarce be of Virgil's wind in preferring even the Kfe of... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 364 páginas
...laft Georgic has indeed as many metaphors, but not fo daring as this ; for human thoughts and paffions may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, than to an...latter end of this Book, can fcarce be of Virgil's mind ip preferring even the life of a philofopher to it. We may, I think, read the Poet's clime in his defcription,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 páginas
...metaphors, but not Го daring as this ; for human thoughts and paffions may be more naturally afcribcd to a bee, than to an inanimate plant. He who reads over the pleafares of a country life, as they are defcribed by Virgil in the latter end of this book, can fcarce... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 páginas
...metaphors, but not fo daring as this ; for human thoughts and paffions may be more 'naturally aft ribed to a bee, than to an inanimate plant. ' He who reads...of a philofopher to it. We may, I think, read the Ipoet's clime in his tlifcriptiun, for he i'eems to have been in a fiveat at the writing of it. O quis... | |
| 1792 - 918 páginas
...lad Georgic has indeed as man) metaphors, but not fo daring as this; for human thoughts and palfiom may be more naturally afcribed to a bee, than to an inanimate plant. He who reads over the plcafures of a country Jifr, a: they are defcribed by Virgil in the lat'.fr end o: this book, can fcarce... | |
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