And for Virtue in general, the Point between the two Heroes last mentioned is entirely yielded by every Body in favour of Virgil's; the very Moral of the Iliad requiring that it's Heroe should be immoral.
Which reminds me, by the way, that the same Persons, who blame Virgil for want of Fire, blame his Heroe for want of Courage; and with just as much Reason.
Homer is in his Province, when he is describing a Battel or a Multitude, a Heroe or a God.
Prop'd on his Lance the pensive Heroe stood, And heard, and saw unmov'd, the Mourning Crowd.
Whole Nations crowd around with joyful Cries, And view the Heroe with insatiate Eyes.
The introduction is abrupt and spirited, and the Heroe of the Poem is shown to great advantage.
All this he particularly verify'd in that Scene of Alexander, where theHeroe throws himself at the Feet of Statira for Pardon of his past Infidelities.
Heroe standing under the Load of them could have more effectually mov'd his Spectators by the most pathetick Speech, than poor miserable Nokes did by this silent Eloquence and piteous Plight of his Features?
But (as you find by the setting out of my History) that I always intended myself the Heroe of it, it may be necessary to let you know me in my Obscurity, as well as in my higher Light, when I became one of the Theatrical Triumvirat.
Chapter ii -- The heroe of this great history appears with very bad omens.
Now, after this short preface, we think it no disparagement to our heroe to mention the immoderate ardour with which he laid about him at this season.
Now Mrs Waters and our heroe had no sooner sat down together than the former began to play this artillery upon the latter.
Molly then taking a thigh-bone in her hand, fell in among the flying ranks, and dealing her blows with great liberality on either side, overthrew the carcass of many a mighty heroe and heroine.
Here some compliments passed between our heroe and his host, and then the latter was going to begin his history, when Partridge interrupted him.
A parley now was set on foot between the parties; during which the artful fair so slily and imperceptibly carried on her attack, that she had almost subdued the heart of our heroe before she again repaired to acts of hostility.
The preface to Sir John Skeffington's Heroe of Lorenzo had for two centuries lain forgotten, and escaped the notice of Walton's biographers, till in 1852 it was discovered by Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heroe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
