Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresWilliam Tegg, 1868 - 602 pages |
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... Iliad and Odyssey - Virgil's Æneid XLIV . Lucan's Pharsalia - Tasso's Jerusalem - Camoen's Luciad - Fenelon's Telemachus - Voltaire's Hen- riade - Milton's Paradise Lost XLV . Dramatic Poetry - Tragedy XLVI . Tragedy - Greek - French ...
... Iliad and Odyssey - Virgil's Æneid XLIV . Lucan's Pharsalia - Tasso's Jerusalem - Camoen's Luciad - Fenelon's Telemachus - Voltaire's Hen- riade - Milton's Paradise Lost XLV . Dramatic Poetry - Tragedy XLVI . Tragedy - Greek - French ...
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... Iliad , which has been recently edited by an affecting their signification ; as thincan , or ge - thincan , to think ; seon , er g seon , to see ; styran , or on - styran , to stir ; & c . Ande , or ende , now euphonized into ing ; as ...
... Iliad , which has been recently edited by an affecting their signification ; as thincan , or ge - thincan , to think ; seon , er g seon , to see ; styran , or on - styran , to stir ; & c . Ande , or ende , now euphonized into ing ; as ...
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... Iliad ; then I exclaim , that my antagonist either is void of all Taste , or that his Taste is corrupted in a miserable degree ; and I appeal to whatever I think the standard of Taste , to show him that he is in the wrong . A What that ...
... Iliad ; then I exclaim , that my antagonist either is void of all Taste , or that his Taste is corrupted in a miserable degree ; and I appeal to whatever I think the standard of Taste , to show him that he is in the wrong . A What that ...
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... Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have acquired as standards , in some degree , of poetical composition ; since from them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , concerning ...
... Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have acquired as standards , in some degree , of poetical composition ; since from them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , concerning ...
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... Iliad . But this evidently confounds the use of words ; and marks no one species , or character , of composition whatever . I am sorry to be obliged to observe , that the Sublime is too often used in this last and improper sense by the ...
... Iliad . But this evidently confounds the use of words ; and marks no one species , or character , of composition whatever . I am sorry to be obliged to observe , that the Sublime is too often used in this last and improper sense by the ...
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