English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries).Edmund David Jones Oxford University Press, 1952 - 394 Seiten |
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... Homer . If it shall please God to give me longer life , and moderate health , my intentions are to translate the whole Ilias ; provided still that I meet with those encouragements from the public , which may enable me to proceed in my ...
... Homer . If it shall please God to give me longer life , and moderate health , my intentions are to translate the whole Ilias ; provided still that I meet with those encouragements from the public , which may enable me to proceed in my ...
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... Homer . He has not indeed so many thoughts that are low and vulgar , but at the same time has not so many thoughts that are sublime and noble . The truth of it is , Virgil seldom rises into very astonishing sentiments , where he is not ...
... Homer . He has not indeed so many thoughts that are low and vulgar , but at the same time has not so many thoughts that are sublime and noble . The truth of it is , Virgil seldom rises into very astonishing sentiments , where he is not ...
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... Homer ; but he who takes the same method , which Homer took , for arriving at a capacity of accomplishing a work so great . Tread in his steps to the sole fountain of immortality ; drink where he drank , at the true Helicon , that is ...
... Homer ; but he who takes the same method , which Homer took , for arriving at a capacity of accomplishing a work so great . Tread in his steps to the sole fountain of immortality ; drink where he drank , at the true Helicon , that is ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 55 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 61 |
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