English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... perfection , and therein framed us a poem of that excellence as should have put down all , and been the masterpiece of these times , we should all have admired him . But to deprave the present form of writing , and to bring us nothing ...
... perfection , and therein framed us a poem of that excellence as should have put down all , and been the masterpiece of these times , we should all have admired him . But to deprave the present form of writing , and to bring us nothing ...
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... perfection , but never acquired any that was new . We draw not there- fore after their lines , but those of nature ; and having the life before us , besides the experience of all they knew , it is no wonder if we hit some airs and ...
... perfection , but never acquired any that was new . We draw not there- fore after their lines , but those of nature ; and having the life before us , besides the experience of all they knew , it is no wonder if we hit some airs and ...
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... perfection in it , which they never knew ; and which ( if we may guess by what of theirs we have seen in verse , as The Faithful Shepherdess , and Sad Shepherd ) ' tis probable they never could have reached . For the genius of every age ...
... perfection in it , which they never knew ; and which ( if we may guess by what of theirs we have seen in verse , as The Faithful Shepherdess , and Sad Shepherd ) ' tis probable they never could have reached . For the genius of every age ...
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action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse character Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden English epic epic poetry Eugenius Euripides excellent fable Faerie Queene fame father fault French genius give Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning lines Lisideius lived manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher Pindar Plato Plautus play plot poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes Sophocles speak spirit stage stanza syllables things thought tion tragedy translated trochee true truth Virgil virtue words write written