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... Poems fuch of their remarkable Adventures , as were ftill talked of among his Contemporaries . THE Story of Æneas , on which Virgil founded his Poem , was likewise very bare of Circumstances , and by that means afforded him an ...
... Poems fuch of their remarkable Adventures , as were ftill talked of among his Contemporaries . THE Story of Æneas , on which Virgil founded his Poem , was likewise very bare of Circumstances , and by that means afforded him an ...
Page 197
... Poem , and afterwards finds out a Story to it : I am however , of opinion , that no just Heroick Poem ever was or can be made , from whence one great Moral may not be de- duced . That which reigns in Milton , is the most univer- fal and ...
... Poem , and afterwards finds out a Story to it : I am however , of opinion , that no just Heroick Poem ever was or can be made , from whence one great Moral may not be de- duced . That which reigns in Milton , is the most univer- fal and ...
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... Poem , and which makes this Work more ufeful and inftructive than any other Poem in any Lan-- guage . THOSE Who have criticized on the Odyffey , the Iliad ,. and Eneid , have taken a great deal of Pains to fix the Number of Months or ...
... Poem , and which makes this Work more ufeful and inftructive than any other Poem in any Lan-- guage . THOSE Who have criticized on the Odyffey , the Iliad ,. and Eneid , have taken a great deal of Pains to fix the Number of Months or ...
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