The Poetical Works of Alexander PopeW. Suttaby, B. Crosby & Company Corral Prinker, 1807 - 408 pages |
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... ancients their pattern . The most consider- able genius appears in the famous Tasso , and our Spenser . Tasso , in his Aminta , as far excelled all pastoral writers , as in his Gierusalemme , he has outdone the epic poets of his own ...
... ancients their pattern . The most consider- able genius appears in the famous Tasso , and our Spenser . Tasso , in his Aminta , as far excelled all pastoral writers , as in his Gierusalemme , he has outdone the epic poets of his own ...
Page xxii
... ancient and modern critics " ever thought . 66 " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , " that it is the most regular garden , and laid out " with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every " thing therein is not only in the ...
... ancient and modern critics " ever thought . 66 " The Iliad is so far from being a wild paradise , " that it is the most regular garden , and laid out " with more symmetry , than any ever was . Every " thing therein is not only in the ...
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... ancients " have always proposed Homer as the most per- " fect model in every kind of poetry . " The third comparison is composed of the errors of the two former ; Homer had certainly an in- " comparable fertility of invention , but his ...
... ancients " have always proposed Homer as the most per- " fect model in every kind of poetry . " The third comparison is composed of the errors of the two former ; Homer had certainly an in- " comparable fertility of invention , but his ...
Page xxv
... ancient purity : to which our poet made this modest reply , That , not having attempted any thing in the drama , it might in him be deemed too much presumption . To which he was answer- ed , That this did not require great knowledge of ...
... ancient purity : to which our poet made this modest reply , That , not having attempted any thing in the drama , it might in him be deemed too much presumption . To which he was answer- ed , That this did not require great knowledge of ...
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... ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine ( From the proud epic down to those that shade , The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , an awful train , Thy soul's ...
... ancient court thee to his shrine , Though ev'ry laurel through the dome be thine ( From the proud epic down to those that shade , The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid , ) Go to the good and just , an awful train , Thy soul's ...
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