 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...the Writer, is of confequence more pleafing to the Reader. One warms you by Degrees ; the other lets you on fire all at once, and never intermits his Heat. Tis the fame Difference which Longinus makes betwixt the Effects of Eloquence in Demoflhenes^ and Tally. Oneperfuadesj... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...writer, is of confequence more pleafing to the reader. One warms you by der grees ; the other fets you on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. 'Tis the fame difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demofthenes, and Tully, One... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...writer, is of confequence more more pleafmg to the reader. One warms you by degrees ; the other fets you on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. 'Tis the fame difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effefts of eloquence in Demofthenes, and Tully. One... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...Homer, being more full of vigour than that of Virgil, according to the temper of the writer, is of consequence more pleasing to the reader. One warms...on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. It is the same difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demosthenes andTully:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...Homer, being more full of vigour than that of Virgil, according to the temper of the writer, is of consequence more pleasing to the reader. One warms...on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. It is the same difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demosthenes andTully:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...earnest. CalHer. 16. At sometimes imports the manner of an action. One warms you by degrees; the othet sets you on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. Not with less ruin than the Bajan mole At once comes tumbling down. DryJen* 17. At, like the French... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...of Homer being more full of vigour than that of Virgil, according to the temper of the writer, is of consequence more pleasing to the reader. One warms you by degrees ; the other sets you on fit ill at once, and never intermits his heat. It it tbe iane difference which Longinus makes betwixt... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...Homer, being more full of vigour than that of Virgil, according to the temper of the writer, is of consequence more pleasing to the reader. One warms...on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. It is the same difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demosthenes and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...Homer, being more full of vigour than that of Virgil, according to the temper of the writer, is of consequence more pleasing to the reader. One warms...on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. It is the same difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demosthenes and... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 324 pages
...of Homer being more full of vigour than that of Virgil, according to the temper of the critic, is of consequence more pleasing to the reader. One warms...on fire all at once, and never intermits his heat. It is the same difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demosthenes and... | |
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Tis the same difference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demosthenes and Tully; one persuades, the other commands. 
