...stag-eyed," says Lady Wortley Montague, speaking of a Turkish love-song, " pleases me exlremely ; arid I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes." We lose in depth of expression, when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer...

...they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion (allowing for the inevitable faults of a prose translation into a language so very...very agreeable in English) pleases me extremely ; and is I think a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes. Monsieur Boileau...

...stag-ey'd (though the sound is not very agreeable in English) pleases me extremely; and is I think a very lively image of the, fire and indifference...mistress's eyes. Monsieur Boileau has very justly observed, we are never to judge of the elevation of an expression in an ancient author by the sound it carries...

...they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion, (allowing for the inevitable faults of a prose translation into a language so very...indifference in his mistress's eyes. — Monsieur Boilean61 has very justly observed, that we are never to judge of the elevation of an expression in...

...indifferent. " The epithet of stag-eyed," says Lady Wortley Montague, speaking of a Turkish love-song, " pleases me extremely ; and I think it a very lively...the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes." We lose in depth of expression, when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer...