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Page 277
By this sketch of Virgil's fable , tho ' divested of its ornaments , the reader will perceive that it was a scheme likely to conciliate and unite the minds of the prince and the people , and be otherwise serviceable to the state ...
By this sketch of Virgil's fable , tho ' divested of its ornaments , the reader will perceive that it was a scheme likely to conciliate and unite the minds of the prince and the people , and be otherwise serviceable to the state ...
Page 280
Virgil advances with an uniform , majestic pace ; he maintains a dignity that charms and attracts all beholders , but he seldom rises to any astonishing heights where he is not led by the Greek poet , or finks beneath the character he ...
Virgil advances with an uniform , majestic pace ; he maintains a dignity that charms and attracts all beholders , but he seldom rises to any astonishing heights where he is not led by the Greek poet , or finks beneath the character he ...
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Homer scarce does any thing without them ; and Virgil follows Homer more closely in this , than in any other point I know of ; for he has employed machinery so much and so freely in his Æneid , that almost the whole of the story is ...
Homer scarce does any thing without them ; and Virgil follows Homer more closely in this , than in any other point I know of ; for he has employed machinery so much and so freely in his Æneid , that almost the whole of the story is ...
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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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