 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
...poflible fome Great Genius may arife, to equal any of the Ancients ; abating only for the Language. guage. For great Contemporaries whet and cultivate each other...Riches of Learning, as it does of the Civil Government. out fuppofe that Homer and Virgil were the Only of their Species, and that Nature was fo much worn... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire - 1735 - 512 pages
...what I wou'd infer is this ; That in fuch an Age, 'tis poffible fome Great Genius may arife, to equal any of the Ancients ; abating only for the Language....of the Civil Government. but fuppofe that Homer and Pirgil were the onJy of their Species, and that Nature was fo much worn out in producing them, that... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 476 pages
...what I would infer is this; That in fuch an age, it is poffible fome great genius may arife, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....nature was fo much worn out in producing them, that foe is never able to bear the like again ; yet the example only holds in Heroic Poetry : in Tragedy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...what I would infer is this ; That in fuch an age, it is poffible fome great genius may arife, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....fuppofe that Homer and Virgil were the only of their (pecies, and that nature was fo much worn out in producing them, that fhe is never able to bear the... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...what I would infer is this; That in fuch an age, it is poffible fome great genius may arife, to equal any of the ancients; abating only for the language....and cultivate each other: and mutual borrowing, and commerce,makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government. But But fappofe that... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 398 pages
...language. For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other : and mutual borrowing, and commerce.makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government: But But fuppofe that Homer and Virgil were the only of their fpecies, and that nature was fo much worn... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 388 pages
...in all thefe are obvious: but what I would infer is this; That, in fuch an age, it is poffible fome great genius may arife, equal to any of the ancients...much worn out in producing them, that fhe is never able to bear VoL. XXIV. I the the like again; yet, the example only holds in HeroicPoetry : in Tragedy... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...what 1 \vou!J infer is this, That in fuchan age, 'tis poflibic fome great genius may arife to equi'J any of the ancients, abating only for the language...other; and mutual borrowing and commerce, makes the comition riches of learning, as it does of civil government. But fuppofe that Homer and Virgil were... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...this, That in fuch an aje. 'tis poflible fome great genius may arilc to equal any of the p.ncients, abating only for the language ; for great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other ; Jnd mutual borrowing and commerce, makes the common riclies of learning, as it dors of civil government.... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...what I would infer is this ; that in such an age, it is possible some great genius may arise, to equal any of the ancients ; abating only for the language....learning, as it does of the civil government. But suppose that Homer and Virgil were the only of their species, and that Nature was so much worn out... | |
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For great contemporaries whet and cultivate each other ; and mutual borrowing, and commerce, makes the common riches of learning, as it does of the civil government. 
