A Defense of PoetryGinn, 1891 - 82 páginas |
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... Virgil 5 in a very high sense , a creator . The chosen deli- cacy of expressions of the latter are as a mist of light which conceal from us the intense and exceed- ing truth of his conceptions of nature . Livy is instinct with poetry ...
... Virgil 5 in a very high sense , a creator . The chosen deli- cacy of expressions of the latter are as a mist of light which conceal from us the intense and exceed- ing truth of his conceptions of nature . Livy is instinct with poetry ...
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... Virgil calls justissimus unus , in Paradise , and observing a most heretical caprice in his distribution of rewards and punishments . And 15 Milton's poem contains within itself a philosophical refutation of that system , of which , by ...
... Virgil calls justissimus unus , in Paradise , and observing a most heretical caprice in his distribution of rewards and punishments . And 15 Milton's poem contains within itself a philosophical refutation of that system , of which , by ...
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... Virgil , with a modesty that ill became his genius , had affected the fame of an 5 imitator , even whilst he created anew all that he copied ; and none among the flock of mock - birds , though their notes are sweet , Apollonius Rhodius ...
... Virgil , with a modesty that ill became his genius , had affected the fame of an 5 imitator , even whilst he created anew all that he copied ; and none among the flock of mock - birds , though their notes are sweet , Apollonius Rhodius ...
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... Virgil was a flatterer , that Horace 15 was a coward , that Tasso was a madman , that Lord Bacon was a peculator , that Raphael was a liber- tine , that Spenser was a poet laureate . It is incon- sistent with this division of our ...
... Virgil was a flatterer , that Horace 15 was a coward , that Tasso was a madman , that Lord Bacon was a peculator , that Raphael was a liber- tine , that Spenser was a poet laureate . It is incon- sistent with this division of our ...
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... Virgil is the most obvious and striking example . The original is chiefly comic , didactic , or satiric , as in Menander , Aristophanes , Horace , 10 and Juvenal . The poetry of this age is characterized by an exquisite and fastidious ...
... Virgil is the most obvious and striking example . The original is chiefly comic , didactic , or satiric , as in Menander , Aristophanes , Horace , 10 and Juvenal . The poetry of this age is characterized by an exquisite and fastidious ...
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