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... Essay on Translated Verse ; " Sheffield's " Essay on Poetry . " Didactic Spirit of the Period . - Pope's " Windsor Forest . " - The Love of Nature . - The " Rape of the Lock . " - His Translation of Homer . - Relations of Men of Letters ...
... Essay on Translated Verse ; " Sheffield's " Essay on Poetry . " Didactic Spirit of the Period . - Pope's " Windsor Forest . " - The Love of Nature . - The " Rape of the Lock . " - His Translation of Homer . - Relations of Men of Letters ...
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... essay on Racine ; and the literature of France was built up almost entirely on that of Rome . The French , for instance , cared very little for Homer un- til this century , as may be readily shown . In the revival of letters , the ...
... essay on Racine ; and the literature of France was built up almost entirely on that of Rome . The French , for instance , cared very little for Homer un- til this century , as may be readily shown . In the revival of letters , the ...
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... Essays , " p . 255 ) . Lyly might have written this line : " Neither by defect of form nor by any de- fault of force " ( ib . p . 108 ) . For conceits outdoing even Lyly , see Pater , " Studies in the History of the Renaissance ...
... Essays , " p . 255 ) . Lyly might have written this line : " Neither by defect of form nor by any de- fault of force " ( ib . p . 108 ) . For conceits outdoing even Lyly , see Pater , " Studies in the History of the Renaissance ...
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... Essay on Man , " p . 19 ) , " the stanza in verse is the analogue of the prose sentence as constructed by Hooker , Jeremy Taylor , or Milton . Each of these stately periods carries along with it , over and above its direct predication ...
... Essay on Man , " p . 19 ) , " the stanza in verse is the analogue of the prose sentence as constructed by Hooker , Jeremy Taylor , or Milton . Each of these stately periods carries along with it , over and above its direct predication ...
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... Essays , " No. 92 : " Bunyan's ' Pilgrim's Progress ' has given as much pleasure among the English vulgar as the ' Quixote ' of Cervantes . " Dr. Johnson said it was the only uninspired book , except " Don Quixote , " which the reader ...
... Essays , " No. 92 : " Bunyan's ' Pilgrim's Progress ' has given as much pleasure among the English vulgar as the ' Quixote ' of Cervantes . " Dr. Johnson said it was the only uninspired book , except " Don Quixote , " which the reader ...
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