The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English essays |
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... poem ? Those who will not give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) a divine poem . It will be sufficient to its perfection , if it has in it No. 267 . 43 THE SPECTATOR .
... poem ? Those who will not give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) a divine poem . It will be sufficient to its perfection , if it has in it No. 267 . 43 THE SPECTATOR .
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... poem , they advance no more to the diminution of it , than if they should say , Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid in the ...
... poem , they advance no more to the diminution of it , than if they should say , Adam is not Æneas , nor Eve Helen . I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry , and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Eneid in the ...
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... poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an in- fernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposes to celebrate ; and as for these great actions , the battle of the ...
... poem . Milton , in imitation of these two great poets , opens his Paradise Lost with an in- fernal council plotting the fall of man , which is the action he proposes to celebrate ; and as for these great actions , the battle of the ...
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... poem , hinders it from breaking the unity so much as another episode would have done , that had not so great an affinity with the principal subject . In short this is the same kind of beauty which the cri- tics admire in the Spanish ...
... poem , hinders it from breaking the unity so much as another episode would have done , that had not so great an affinity with the principal subject . In short this is the same kind of beauty which the cri- tics admire in the Spanish ...
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... poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them , should be great . I will not presume to say , that the book of games in the Æneid , or that in the Iliad , are not of this ...
... poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them , should be great . I will not presume to say , that the book of games in the Æneid , or that in the Iliad , are not of this ...
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