...inflames his crimes." Better thus : " A friend exaggerates a man's virtues : an enemy, his crimes." careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overllow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed,...

...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty : Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence : Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and constant stream. When we...

...look upon their maehines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, seattering lightnings, and firing the heavens. Virgil like the same power in his benevolenee, eounselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole ereation."...

...a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows, with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, outpours his riches, with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river, in its banks, with a constant stream." T3941 8i J*ttend to the harmony and melody of the words *. .* and members of a sentence. Those parts...

...inflames his crimes."' Better thus :." A frimd exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy, his crimes." careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream." — Periods thus constructed, when introduced with propriety, and not returning too often, have a sensible...

...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer, scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a censtant stream. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems imselling wilh tho gods, laying...

...appears undisturbed in the midst of the action j disposes all about him, and conquers with tranquillity. And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems...like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, tattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power in bis benevolence, counselling...

...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer, scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...its banks, with a constant stream. And when we look upoe their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering...

...Virgil lead us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a 138 POPE'S TRANSLATIONS. boundless overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a gentle and...

...Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows •with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile,...like a river in its banks, with a constant stream. When we look upon their machine*, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus,...