 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 460 Seiten
...dialogue ! On this last topic Addison makes the following observations, in the " Guardian," No. 1 10. " I have now Mr Dryden's " Don Sebastian" before me, in which I find frequent allusions to ancient poetry, and the old mythology of the heathens. It is not very natural to suppose a king of Portugal... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 Seiten
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded his huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...when he talked even to those of his own court; but to allude to these Roman fables when he talks to an emperor of VOL. II. BB Barbary, seems very extraordinary.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 Seiten
...work ; Jove was not more • With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...when he talked even to those of his own court, but to allude to these Roman fables when he talks to an emperor of Barbary, seems very extraordinary. But... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 Seiten
...work ; Jove was not more \Vith infant nature, when his spacious band Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...vast abyss " I have now Mr. Dryden's Don Sebastian befoi'e me, in which I find frequent allusions to ancient history, and the old mythology of the heathen.... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 Seiten
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth, and seas, To give it the first push, and see it roll Along the vast abyss." We will place together, as they occur, the other passages in this play which are worthy of especial... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 Seiten
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...when he talked even to those of his own court ; but to allude to these Roman fables when he talks to an emperor of Barbary, seems very extraordinary. But... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 Seiten
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...when he talked even to those of his own court ; but to allude to these Roman fables when he talks to an emperor of Barbary, seems very extraordinary. But... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 360 Seiten
...own work; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...allusions to ancient history, and the old mythology of the heathens. It is not very natural to suppose a King of Portugal would be borrowing thoughts out of Ovid's... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 324 Seiten
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...allusions to ancient history, and the old mythology of the heathens. It is not very natural to suppose a King of Portugal would be borrowing thoughts out of Ovid's... | |
 | 1826 - 316 Seiten
...own work ; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give it the first push, and see...allusions to ancient history, and the old mythology of the heathens. It is not very natural to suppose a king of Portugal would be borrowing thoughts out of Ovid's... | |
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As Dryden's Cleomenes is acquainted with the Copernican hypothesis two thousand years before its invention. I am pleas'd with my own work; Jove was not more With infant nature, when his spacious hand Had rounded this huge ball of earth and seas, To give... 
