...there never comes from them one sense worth the life of a day. A rhymer and a poet are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought...verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking. Scaliger the father writes it of him, that he made a quantity of verses in the morning, which afore...

...be termed original genius, will not bear the eye of an Aristarchus. It was said of the illustrious, the incomparable, Virgil, — " That he brought forth his verses like a bear, and afterwards formed them by licking." This is a precise illustration of the position we have assumed...

...there never comes from them one sense worth the life of a day. A rhymer and a poefrjure two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought...verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking. Scaliger the father writes it of him, . J'i- / ' that he made a quantity of verses in the morning,...

...from them one sense worth the life of a day. A rimer and a poet are two things. It is said of the ' f incomparable Virgil that he brought forth his verses...like * a bear, and after formed them with licking. Scaliger the father writes it of him, that he made a quantity of verses in the morning, which afore...

...there never come[s] from them one sense worth the life of a day. A rimer and a poet are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil that he brought forth his verses like 30 a bear, and after formed them with licking. Scaliger the father writes it of him, that he made a...

...there never come[s] from them one sense worth the life of a day. A rimer and a poet are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil that he brought forth his verses like 30 a bear, and after formed them with licking. Scaliger the father writes it of him, that he made a...

...reading of Homer and Virgil is ... the best way of informing youthjand confirming man;' ibid., p.'76. 28: 'It is said of the incomparable Virgil that he brought...verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking ; ' Jonson calls him an imitator of Homer, ibid., p. 77. 26, and names both as masters of the epic,...

...reading of Homer and Virgil is ... the best way of informing youth/and confirming man;' ibid., p. 76. 28: 'It is said of the incomparable Virgil that he brought...verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking ; ' Jonson calls him an imitator of Homer, ibid., p. 77. 26, and names both as masters of the epic,...

..."vicious language," which is "vast and gaping, swelling and irregular." Virgil is to be commended, who "brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking."* Euripides is to be commended, who "had in three days brought forth but three verses." What shall survive...

...there never come(s) from them one Sense worth the life 15 of a Day. A Rymer and a Poet are two things. It is said of the incomparable Virgil that he brought forth his verses like a Beare, and after form'd them with licking. Scaliger the Father writes it of him, that he made a quantitie...