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... Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be considered in an epic poem , is the fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or less so ...
... Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be considered in an epic poem , is the fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates is more or less so ...
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... Iliad , are not of this nature , nor to reprehend Virgil's simile of the top , and many other of the same kind , in the Iliad , as liable to any censure in this particular ; but I think we may say , without derogating from those ...
... Iliad , are not of this nature , nor to reprehend Virgil's simile of the top , and many other of the same kind , in the Iliad , as liable to any censure in this particular ; but I think we may say , without derogating from those ...
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... Iliad , and that of the Æneid , were in themselves exceeding short , but are so beautifully extended and diversified by the invention of epi- sodes , and the machinery of gods , with the like poetical ornaments , that they make up an ...
... Iliad , and that of the Æneid , were in themselves exceeding short , but are so beautifully extended and diversified by the invention of epi- sodes , and the machinery of gods , with the like poetical ornaments , that they make up an ...
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... Iliad and Æneid the space of time , which is taken up by the action of each of those poems ; but as a great part of Milton's story was transacted in regions that lie out of the reach of the sun and the sphere of day , it is impossible ...
... Iliad and Æneid the space of time , which is taken up by the action of each of those poems ; but as a great part of Milton's story was transacted in regions that lie out of the reach of the sun and the sphere of day , it is impossible ...
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... Iliad , which the reader may not ascribe to the person that speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his characters . He has ...
... Iliad , which the reader may not ascribe to the person that speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his characters . He has ...
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acquaintance action Adam and Eve admired Æneid agreeable angels appear Aristotle beauty behaviour character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances creature critics desire discourse dress entertainment Enville epic poem fable fallen angels fame father fault favour FEBRUARY 27 female fortune genius gentleman give grace greatest happiness head heart Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad innocent Julius Cæsar kind lady letter lived look lover MADAM mankind manner marriage ment Milton mind mistress nature never obliged observed occasion opinion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion perfect person pleased pleasure poet pray present proper Quintilian racters reader reason reflections reputation Satan sentiments shew speak SPECTATOR speech spirit sublime tell Thammuz thing thou thought tion told town turn verse VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman women words young
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Page 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Page 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Page 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Page 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.