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... Iliad , ' let every reader ask himself what his judgment would be if he were to read that poem and Tasso for the first time without knowing the names of the authors or when the poems were written , and deciding only from the pleasure ...
... Iliad , ' let every reader ask himself what his judgment would be if he were to read that poem and Tasso for the first time without knowing the names of the authors or when the poems were written , and deciding only from the pleasure ...
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... Iliad or the Æneid . " When all is said , we find a precedent for the use of this measure in Sir John Davies's " Nosce Teipsum ” ( 1599 ) , although in this older poem the sense runs over from one stanza into a second or third . Wyatt ...
... Iliad or the Æneid . " When all is said , we find a precedent for the use of this measure in Sir John Davies's " Nosce Teipsum ” ( 1599 ) , although in this older poem the sense runs over from one stanza into a second or third . Wyatt ...
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... Iliad , " 1611 ; " Odyssey , " 1615 ) ; Marston's " Pygmalion's Image " ( 1597 ) ; Marlowe's “ Hero and Leander " ( 1598 ) , and his " Elegies of Ovid ” ( 1597 ) ; Golding's " Metamorphoses " ( 1565 ) , and Sandys's version of the same ...
... Iliad , " 1611 ; " Odyssey , " 1615 ) ; Marston's " Pygmalion's Image " ( 1597 ) ; Marlowe's “ Hero and Leander " ( 1598 ) , and his " Elegies of Ovid ” ( 1597 ) ; Golding's " Metamorphoses " ( 1565 ) , and Sandys's version of the same ...
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... Iliad , ” xiv . 327 . " Both armies join : Earth thunders , Ocean roars . Not half so loud the bellowing deeps resound , When stormy winds disclose the dark profound ; Less loud the winds that from the Eolian hall Roar through the woods ...
... Iliad , ” xiv . 327 . " Both armies join : Earth thunders , Ocean roars . Not half so loud the bellowing deeps resound , When stormy winds disclose the dark profound ; Less loud the winds that from the Eolian hall Roar through the woods ...
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... Iliad : " " Before thy presence , father , I appear , With conscious shame and reverential fear . Ah ! had I died , ere to these walls I fled , False to my country and my nuptial bed ; My brothers , friends , and daughters left behind ...
... Iliad : " " Before thy presence , father , I appear , With conscious shame and reverential fear . Ah ! had I died , ere to these walls I fled , False to my country and my nuptial bed ; My brothers , friends , and daughters left behind ...
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