The Works of Joseph Addison: The SpectatorG.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... words oft creep in one dull line . The gaping of the vowels in the second line , the expletive do in the third , and the ten monosyllables in the fourth , give such a beauty to this passage , as would have been very much admired in an ...
... words oft creep in one dull line . The gaping of the vowels in the second line , the expletive do in the third , and the ten monosyllables in the fourth , give such a beauty to this passage , as would have been very much admired in an ...
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... words move slow ; Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the following lines , puts me in mind of a description in Homer's Odyssey ...
... words move slow ; Not so , when swift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'er th ' unbending corn , and skims along the main . The beautiful Distich upon Ajax in the following lines , puts me in mind of a description in Homer's Odyssey ...
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... words . For this reason I shall wave the discussion of that point which was start- ed some years since , Whether Milton's Paradise Lost may be called an heroic poem ? those who will not give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) ...
... words . For this reason I shall wave the discussion of that point which was start- ed some years since , Whether Milton's Paradise Lost may be called an heroic poem ? those who will not give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) ...
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... words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains by the following similitude . An animal , no bigger than a mite , cannot appear ...
... words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness . The just measure of this kind of magnitude , he explains by the following similitude . An animal , no bigger than a mite , cannot appear ...
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... words will do as well . Another way of raising the language , and giving it a poetical turn , is to make use of the idioms of other tongues . Virgil is full of the Greek forms of speech , which the critics call Hellen- isms , as Horace ...
... words will do as well . Another way of raising the language , and giving it a poetical turn , is to make use of the idioms of other tongues . Virgil is full of the Greek forms of speech , which the critics call Hellen- isms , as Horace ...
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