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Spenser has also been blamed for drawing his plan in fairy land , and making up his characters with imaginary beings much exceeding the size asigned to fairies in other poetical fictions ; but in allegorical and emblematical writings ...
Spenser has also been blamed for drawing his plan in fairy land , and making up his characters with imaginary beings much exceeding the size asigned to fairies in other poetical fictions ; but in allegorical and emblematical writings ...
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His sentiments of things are also very juft , and conformable to the subject he treats upon ; which , I think is the more extraordinary , as he has to do with persons and things supernatural , and which must therefore depend entirely ...
His sentiments of things are also very juft , and conformable to the subject he treats upon ; which , I think is the more extraordinary , as he has to do with persons and things supernatural , and which must therefore depend entirely ...
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He has also borrowed freely from other languages , and introduced into his poem a great many forms of speech peculiar to the Latin , Greek , and Hebrew . From the ancia cnts he has likewise taken his method of transporing words ...
He has also borrowed freely from other languages , and introduced into his poem a great many forms of speech peculiar to the Latin , Greek , and Hebrew . From the ancia cnts he has likewise taken his method of transporing words ...
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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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