The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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Page 5
... Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were ...
... Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were ...
Page 35
... Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples ...
... Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples ...
Page 37
... Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro positus , litem ut discerneret ...
... Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro positus , litem ut discerneret ...
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... Virgil , always : in whom the examples are innumer- able , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it is superfluous to collect them . " I know not whether he has , in many of these instances , attained the representation or ...
... Virgil , always : in whom the examples are innumer- able , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it is superfluous to collect them . " I know not whether he has , in many of these instances , attained the representation or ...
Page 46
... Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them ; that this opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this trunca- tion is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one ...
... Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them ; that this opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this trunca- tion is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one ...
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