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Page 64
... poets , and of Homer in particular . It was certainly a very bold thought in our author , to ascribe the first use of ... poet's use , is the opinion of many learned men , that the fable of the giants ' war , which makes so great a noise ...
... poets , and of Homer in particular . It was certainly a very bold thought in our author , to ascribe the first use of ... poet's use , is the opinion of many learned men , that the fable of the giants ' war , which makes so great a noise ...
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... poet had his eye upon Ovid's account of the universal deluge , the reader may observe with how much judgment he has avoid- ed every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin poet . We do not here see the wolf swimming among the ...
... poet had his eye upon Ovid's account of the universal deluge , the reader may observe with how much judgment he has avoid- ed every thing that is redundant or puerile in the Latin poet . We do not here see the wolf swimming among the ...
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... poet shines by a happy invention , a distant allusion , or a judicious imitation ; how he has copied or improved Homer or Virgil , and raises his own imaginations by the use which he has made of several poetical passages in scripture ...
... poet shines by a happy invention , a distant allusion , or a judicious imitation ; how he has copied or improved Homer or Virgil , and raises his own imaginations by the use which he has made of several poetical passages in scripture ...
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