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This is indeed clearing the poet , but it does not discharge the hero ; for if only the vulgar believed that the gods were thus engaged , we cannot suppose that Dido gave into it , and this accounts for the scoffing reply the made to ...
This is indeed clearing the poet , but it does not discharge the hero ; for if only the vulgar believed that the gods were thus engaged , we cannot suppose that Dido gave into it , and this accounts for the scoffing reply the made to ...
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Another complaint made against Milton's fable ( and which indeed is included in the above ) is , that the hero of the poem is unsuccessful , and too weak for his enemies , and that therefore the poem cannot be properly called heroic ...
Another complaint made against Milton's fable ( and which indeed is included in the above ) is , that the hero of the poem is unsuccessful , and too weak for his enemies , and that therefore the poem cannot be properly called heroic ...
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about so as to save the hero's honour , without celestial ma . chinery ; nor can this , and therefore St. Lewis is sent to the throne of God , to intercede for the hero . At his interceffion Faith is sent from heaven to convert Henry to ...
about so as to save the hero's honour , without celestial ma . chinery ; nor can this , and therefore St. Lewis is sent to the throne of God , to intercede for the hero . At his interceffion Faith is sent from heaven to convert Henry to ...
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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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