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Page vii
... Homer and Virgil , and becoming the epic representative of his native land and of modern Christendom . At first he meditated a national epic , based upon the legends of prehistoric England . In his youth his mind was attracted by the ...
... Homer and Virgil , and becoming the epic representative of his native land and of modern Christendom . At first he meditated a national epic , based upon the legends of prehistoric England . In his youth his mind was attracted by the ...
Page xiii
... Homer and Virgil ; but such obligations are very hard to establish , unless the poet chooses himself to manifest them beyond doubt by the words he employs . Among the English writers whom Milton is supposed to have imitated , the first ...
... Homer and Virgil ; but such obligations are very hard to establish , unless the poet chooses himself to manifest them beyond doubt by the words he employs . Among the English writers whom Milton is supposed to have imitated , the first ...
Page xvi
... Homer , replied , " Let my detractors try to steal for themselves , as they say I have stolen for myself , and they will find that it is easier to rob Hercules of his club than to rob Homer of a single verse . " Milton pro- bably ...
... Homer , replied , " Let my detractors try to steal for themselves , as they say I have stolen for myself , and they will find that it is easier to rob Hercules of his club than to rob Homer of a single verse . " Milton pro- bably ...
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... Homer in Greek , and of Virgil in Latin , —rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a barbarous age , to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced ...
... Homer in Greek , and of Virgil in Latin , —rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse , in longer works especially , but the invention of a barbarous age , to set off wretched matter and lame metre ; graced ...
Page 55
... Homer ( Il . II . 673 ) , whom Milton is probably here imitating ; in Bacon , e.g. " The invention of forms is of all other parts of knowledge the worthiest to be sought " ; and in Shakespeare , e.g. " This is the greatest error of all ...
... Homer ( Il . II . 673 ) , whom Milton is probably here imitating ; in Bacon , e.g. " The invention of forms is of all other parts of knowledge the worthiest to be sought " ; and in Shakespeare , e.g. " This is the greatest error of all ...
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