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Page 184
The only authors that have so dilinguished themselves as to obtain the name of Epic Poets , are ( if I mistake not ) Homer , Virgil , Milton , and Taso , though many others have deserved well of the public , ' and among these Fenelon ...
The only authors that have so dilinguished themselves as to obtain the name of Epic Poets , are ( if I mistake not ) Homer , Virgil , Milton , and Taso , though many others have deserved well of the public , ' and among these Fenelon ...
Page 226
When we read these master - strokes of Homer , which are seen in almost every page of this noble work , it gives us the same pain to make any reflections to his disadvantage , as it would to animadvert on the foibles of a friend ...
When we read these master - strokes of Homer , which are seen in almost every page of this noble work , it gives us the same pain to make any reflections to his disadvantage , as it would to animadvert on the foibles of a friend ...
Page 352
Notwithstanding these absurdities , some few of which we fhall hereafter point out , his poem is so admired in several parts of Italy , that many of his canto's are publicly fung in that country , as those of Homer were in Greece ...
Notwithstanding these absurdities , some few of which we fhall hereafter point out , his poem is so admired in several parts of Italy , that many of his canto's are publicly fung in that country , as those of Homer were in Greece ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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