The Spectator, Volume 4Little, Brown and Company, 1856 |
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Page 183
... Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be ...
... Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be ...
Page 242
' only copies of what has passed between other per- sons . Adam and Eve , before the fall , are a dif- ferent species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention , and the ...
' only copies of what has passed between other per- sons . Adam and Eve , before the fall , are a dif- ferent species from that of mankind , who are descended from them ; and none but a poet of the most unbounded invention , and the ...
Page 270
... Adam and Eve : Adam , the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters , Eve . iv . 323 . It is plain , that in the former of these passages , according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in ...
... Adam and Eve : Adam , the goodliest man of men since born His sons , the fairest of her daughters , Eve . iv . 323 . It is plain , that in the former of these passages , according to the natural syntax , the divine persons mentioned in ...
Page 328
... Adam and Eve sinking from a state of innocence and happiness , into the most abject condition of sin and sorrow . The most taking tragedies among the ancients were built on this last sort of implex fable , particu- larly the tragedy of ...
... Adam and Eve sinking from a state of innocence and happiness , into the most abject condition of sin and sorrow . The most taking tragedies among the ancients were built on this last sort of implex fable , particu- larly the tragedy of ...
Page 330
... Adam and Eve , or by some good or evil spirit who is engaged , either in their destruction , or defence . From what has been here observed , it appears , that digressions are by no means to be allowed of in an epic poem . If the poet ...
... Adam and Eve , or by some good or evil spirit who is engaged , either in their destruction , or defence . From what has been here observed , it appears , that digressions are by no means to be allowed of in an epic poem . If the poet ...
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