Essays of John Dryden, Band 2Clarendon Press, 1900 |
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... Epic Poetry , I have confessed , that no man hitherto has reached , or so much as approached , to the excellencies of Homer , or of Virgil ; I must further add , that Statius , the best versificator next to 1 Of your Lordship in the ...
... Epic Poetry , I have confessed , that no man hitherto has reached , or so much as approached , to the excellencies of Homer , or of Virgil ; I must further add , that Statius , the best versificator next to 1 Of your Lordship in the ...
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... poet . IO By this time , my Lord , I doubt not but that you wonder , why I have run off from my bias so long together , and made so tedious a digression from satire to heroic poetry ... epic poem . Besides these , or the like animadversions ...
... poet . IO By this time , my Lord , I doubt not but that you wonder , why I have run off from my bias so long together , and made so tedious a digression from satire to heroic poetry ... epic poem . Besides these , or the like animadversions ...
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... epic poetry . Though St. Michael , in Ariosto , seeks out Discord , to send her among the Pagans , and finds her 20 in a convent of friars , where peace should reign , which indeed is fine satire ; and Satan , in Tasso , excites Soly ...
... epic poetry . Though St. Michael , in Ariosto , seeks out Discord , to send her among the Pagans , and finds her 20 in a convent of friars , where peace should reign , which indeed is fine satire ; and Satan , in Tasso , excites Soly ...
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... Epic Poetry . The heroes of the poets are to be drawn according to this rule . There is scarce a frailty to be left in the best of them , 5 any more than is to be found in a divine nature ; and if Æneas sometimes weeps , it is not in ...
... Epic Poetry . The heroes of the poets are to be drawn according to this rule . There is scarce a frailty to be left in the best of them , 5 any more than is to be found in a divine nature ; and if Æneas sometimes weeps , it is not in ...
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... epic . Thus at least I have shewn , that in the most perfect poem , which is that of Virgil , a perfect idea was re- quired and followed ; and consequently that all succeed- ing poets ought rather to imitate him , than even Homer . 20 I ...
... epic . Thus at least I have shewn , that in the most perfect poem , which is that of Virgil , a perfect idea was re- quired and followed ; and consequently that all succeed- ing poets ought rather to imitate him , than even Homer . 20 I ...
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