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... Virgil . - Spencer . -Phillips . - Gay . - Shenstone LETTER XXVII . Didactic , Satiric , and Descriptive Poetry .-- He- siod . - Lucretius . - Virgil . - Horace . -Boileau . -Pope . - Rapin . — Mason . — Akenside . — Arm- strong ...
... Virgil . - Spencer . -Phillips . - Gay . - Shenstone LETTER XXVII . Didactic , Satiric , and Descriptive Poetry .-- He- siod . - Lucretius . - Virgil . - Horace . -Boileau . -Pope . - Rapin . — Mason . — Akenside . — Arm- strong ...
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... Virgil himself , whom as a poet I almost idolize , I seem some- times to have discovered this fault . The beau- tiful lines , which on a former occasion I quoted from the 3d Georgic- 66 Optima quæque dies , " & c . I have always thought ...
... Virgil himself , whom as a poet I almost idolize , I seem some- times to have discovered this fault . The beau- tiful lines , which on a former occasion I quoted from the 3d Georgic- 66 Optima quæque dies , " & c . I have always thought ...
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... Virgil will give you a suf- ficient idea of this- " Depresso incipiet jam tum mihi taurus aratro 66 Ingemere , & sulco attritus splendescere vomer . ” " Then with the crooked plough the steers shall groan , " And the keen share shall ...
... Virgil will give you a suf- ficient idea of this- " Depresso incipiet jam tum mihi taurus aratro 66 Ingemere , & sulco attritus splendescere vomer . ” " Then with the crooked plough the steers shall groan , " And the keen share shall ...
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... , " poets frequently employ what I may call a string of epithets , while humble prose shrinks almost from the dangerous application of even a single one . Thus Virgil- " Monstrum horrendum , informe , ingens , cui lumen 118 THOUGHTS AND.
... , " poets frequently employ what I may call a string of epithets , while humble prose shrinks almost from the dangerous application of even a single one . Thus Virgil- " Monstrum horrendum , informe , ingens , cui lumen 118 THOUGHTS AND.
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... Virgil.- MY DEAR JOHN , • In treating of the different forms of poetical productions , I might have adopted a general division , similar to that in which I arranged compositions in prose . They might in general be classed under the ...
... Virgil.- MY DEAR JOHN , • In treating of the different forms of poetical productions , I might have adopted a general division , similar to that in which I arranged compositions in prose . They might in general be classed under the ...
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