The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 7
... 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 47
... 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 49
... Virgil describes the stone Dr. Warton discovers some contrariety of opi- nion between this , and what is said of description in p . 43.-C. VOL . I. D which Turnus lifted against Eneas , he fixes the attention COWLEY . 49.
... Virgil describes the stone Dr. Warton discovers some contrariety of opi- nion between this , and what is said of description in p . 43.-C. VOL . I. D which Turnus lifted against Eneas , he fixes the attention COWLEY . 49.
Page 61
... Virgil , always : in whom the examples are innumerable , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it is super- fluous to collect them . " I know not whether he has , in many of these in- stances , attained the representation ...
... Virgil , always : in whom the examples are innumerable , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it is super- fluous to collect them . " I know not whether he has , in many of these in- stances , attained the representation ...
Page 62
... Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to com- plete them ; that this opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one ...
... Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to com- plete them ; that this opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet : because Virgil himself filled up one ...
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