English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries).Edmund David Jones Oxford University Press, 1952 - 394 Seiten |
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... Virgil was of a quiet , sedate temper ; Homer was violent , impetu- ous , and full of fire . The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties ...
... Virgil was of a quiet , sedate temper ; Homer was violent , impetu- ous , and full of fire . The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties ...
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... Virgil's poem are the four - and - twenty Iliads contracted ; a quarrel occasioned by a lady , a single combat , battles fought , and a town besieged . I say not this in deroga- tion to Virgil , neither do I contradict anything which I ...
... Virgil's poem are the four - and - twenty Iliads contracted ; a quarrel occasioned by a lady , a single combat , battles fought , and a town besieged . I say not this in deroga- tion to Virgil , neither do I contradict anything which I ...
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... Virgil's , no more than the sense of the precedent couplet ; so again , he interpolates Virgil with that and " the round circle of the year to guide powerful of blessings , which thou strew'st around " . A ridiculous Latinism , and an ...
... Virgil's , no more than the sense of the precedent couplet ; so again , he interpolates Virgil with that and " the round circle of the year to guide powerful of blessings , which thou strew'st around " . A ridiculous Latinism , and an ...
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SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 1 |
THOMAS CAMPION 15671620 | 55 |
SAMUEL DANIEL 15621619 | 61 |
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