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Page 15
... Iliad or Eneid , and therefore an Hea- then could not form an higher notion of a poem than one of that kind , which they call an heroic . Whether MILTON'S is not of a sublimer nature I will not pre- sume to determine : it is sufficient ...
... Iliad or Eneid , and therefore an Hea- then could not form an higher notion of a poem than one of that kind , which they call an heroic . Whether MILTON'S is not of a sublimer nature I will not pre- sume to determine : it is sufficient ...
Page 120
... Iliad , to be allegories : but allowing this to be true , they are fables , which considering the opinions of mankind that prevailed in the age of the Poet , might possibly have been according to the letter . The persons are such as ...
... Iliad , to be allegories : but allowing this to be true , they are fables , which considering the opinions of mankind that prevailed in the age of the Poet , might possibly have been according to the letter . The persons are such as ...
Page 148
... Iliad , and the Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their opinions of the great beauties in those poems , they have nevertheless each of them discovered several master - strokes , which have escaped the observation of ...
... Iliad , and the Æneid , knows very well , that though they agree in their opinions of the great beauties in those poems , they have nevertheless each of them discovered several master - strokes , which have escaped the observation of ...
Page 151
... Iliad , where two deities are described as perching on the top of an oak in the shape of vultures . His planting himself at the ear of EvE , under the form of a toad , in order to produce vain dreams and imaginations , is a circumstance ...
... Iliad , where two deities are described as perching on the top of an oak in the shape of vultures . His planting himself at the ear of EvE , under the form of a toad , in order to produce vain dreams and imaginations , is a circumstance ...
Page 153
... Iliad.` VIRGIL , before the last decisive combat , describes JUPITER in the same manner as weighing the fates of TURNUS and ENEAS . MILTON , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Æneid , does not only insert ...
... Iliad.` VIRGIL , before the last decisive combat , describes JUPITER in the same manner as weighing the fates of TURNUS and ENEAS . MILTON , though he fetched this beautiful circumstance from the Iliad and Æneid , does not only insert ...
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