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Page 128
... poem , an Heroic poem ; at least , till another new title be found proportioned to its merit . If you fcruple , fays Addifon , to give the title of an Epic poem to the Paradise 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 , fays Addifon , to give the title of an Epic poem to the Paradise Lost of Mil- ton , call it , if you choose , a DIVINE poem ...
Page 214
... poem , in which the Serious and Comic were happily blended . Boileau him- felf has left us a circumftantial account of what gave occafion to this poem ; which account , because it is entertaining , and not printed in fome later editions ...
... poem , in which the Serious and Comic were happily blended . Boileau him- felf has left us a circumftantial account of what gave occafion to this poem ; which account , because it is entertaining , and not printed in fome later editions ...
Page 292
... poem . It is not impertinent to obferve , for the fake of those who are fond of the history of literature , and of the human mind in the progress of it , that the very firft 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 history of literature , and of the human mind in the progress of it , that the very firft poem that appeared in France , any thing like an epic • Since ...
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