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... poem , an Heroic poem ; at least , till another new title be found proportioned to its merit . If you fcruple , says Addison , to give the title of an Epic poem to the Paradife Lost of Mil- ton , call it , if you choose , a DIVINE poem ...
... poem , an Heroic poem ; at least , till another new title be found proportioned to its merit . If you fcruple , says Addison , to give the title of an Epic poem to the Paradife Lost of Mil- ton , call it , if you choose , a DIVINE poem ...
Page 213
... poem , entitled LE PAZZIE DE SAVI , overo , IL LAMBER- TACCIO , in which the Modenese are spoken of with much contempt . The Italians have a fine turn for works of humour , in which they abound . They have another poem of this fpecies ...
... poem , entitled LE PAZZIE DE SAVI , overo , IL LAMBER- TACCIO , in which the Modenese are spoken of with much contempt . The Italians have a fine turn for works of humour , in which they abound . They have another poem of this fpecies ...
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... poem . It is not impertinent to obferve , for the fake of those who are fond of the hiftory of literature , and of the human mind in the progrefs of it , that the very first poem that appeared in France , any thing like an epic * Since ...
... poem . It is not impertinent to obferve , for the fake of those who are fond of the hiftory of literature , and of the human mind in the progrefs of it , that the very first poem that appeared in France , any thing like an epic * Since ...
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