The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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Page 15
... tell what they do not know to be true , only to ex- cuse an act which no wise man will consider as in Philips says a garden - house , i . e . a house situate in a garden , and of which there were , especially in the north suburbs of ...
... tell what they do not know to be true , only to ex- cuse an act which no wise man will consider as in Philips says a garden - house , i . e . a house situate in a garden , and of which there were , especially in the north suburbs of ...
Page 16
... tell or receive these stories should consider , that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horse- man must be limited by the power of the horse . Every man , that has ever undertaken to instruct others , can tell ...
... tell or receive these stories should consider , that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horse- man must be limited by the power of the horse . Every man , that has ever undertaken to instruct others , can tell ...
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... ' But his supreme pleasure is to tax his adversary , so renowned for criticism , with vitious Latin . He opens his book with telling that he has used persona , which , according to Milton , signifies 26 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... ' But his supreme pleasure is to tax his adversary , so renowned for criticism , with vitious Latin . He opens his book with telling that he has used persona , which , according to Milton , signifies 26 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
Page 65
... tell how a shepherd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus grieves ...
... tell how a shepherd has lost his companion , and must now feed his flocks alone , without any judge of his skill in piping ; and how one god asks another god what is become of Lycidas , and how neither god can tell . He who thus grieves ...
Page 77
... tell of things visible and known . When he cannot raise wonder by the sublimity of his mind , he gives delight by its fertility . Whatever be his subject , he never fails to fill the imagination . But his images and descriptions of the ...
... tell of things visible and known . When he cannot raise wonder by the sublimity of his mind , he gives delight by its fertility . Whatever be his subject , he never fails to fill the imagination . But his images and descriptions of the ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.