Lives of the English Poets, Waller, Milton, CowleyCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... epic poetry . When the morning comes - a morning gloomy with rain and wind - he walks into the dark , trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or ...
... epic poetry . When the morning comes - a morning gloomy with rain and wind - he walks into the dark , trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or ...
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Samuel Johnson. may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry ... epic style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously in- structive . The sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life , upon different occasions . They deserve ...
Samuel Johnson. may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry ... epic style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously in- structive . The sonnets were written in different parts of Milton's life , upon different occasions . They deserve ...
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... epic poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions . Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . Epic poetry undertakes to ...
... epic poem , as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions . Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . Epic poetry undertakes to ...
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... epic poem , and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted for the art of poetical narration , for the texture of the fable , the variation of incidents , the interposition of ...
... epic poem , and therefore owes reverence to that vigour and amplitude of mind to which all generations must be indebted for the art of poetical narration , for the texture of the fable , the variation of incidents , the interposition of ...
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... Poems . Discourse on Satire and Epic Poetry .. Murad the Unlucky , and Other Tales ... .The Existence of God . .A Voyage to Lisbon . 157B £ 2 9752 80 9 82 505 985 25 3E BIME 2N 6 * 198 81 .Undine , and the Two Captains .. .Sintram and ...
... Poems . Discourse on Satire and Epic Poetry .. Murad the Unlucky , and Other Tales ... .The Existence of God . .A Voyage to Lisbon . 157B £ 2 9752 80 9 82 505 985 25 3E BIME 2N 6 * 198 81 .Undine , and the Two Captains .. .Sintram and ...
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