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The epick poet, the controvertist. the politician, having already descended to
accommodate children with a book of rudiments, now, in the last years of his life,
composed a book of Logick for the initiation of students in philosophy ; and ...
The epick poet, the controvertist. the politician, having already descended to
accommodate children with a book of rudiments, now, in the last years of his life,
composed a book of Logick for the initiation of students in philosophy ; and ...
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drama in the epick style, inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive. The
Sonnets were written in different parts of V>?tJijL^» Milton's life, upon different
occasions. They deserve - not any particular criticism ; for of the best it can only
be said, ...
drama in the epick style, inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive. The
Sonnets were written in different parts of V>?tJijL^» Milton's life, upon different
occasions. They deserve - not any particular criticism ; for of the best it can only
be said, ...
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The antient epick poets, wanting the light of Revelation, were very unskilful
teachers of virtue ; their principal characters may be great, but they are not
amiable. The reader may rise from their works with a greater degree of active or
passive ...
The antient epick poets, wanting the light of Revelation, were very unskilful
teachers of virtue ; their principal characters may be great, but they are not
amiable. The reader may rise from their works with a greater degree of active or
passive ...
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He considered the epick as necessarily including some kind of supernatural
agency, and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of
kingdoms, of whom he conceived that each might be represented zealous for his
...
He considered the epick as necessarily including some kind of supernatural
agency, and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of
kingdoms, of whom he conceived that each might be represented zealous for his
...
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Spence, in his remarks on Pope's Odyssey, produces what he thinks an
unconquerable quotation from Dryden's preface to the iEneid, in favour of
translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author
attempted the ...
Spence, in his remarks on Pope's Odyssey, produces what he thinks an
unconquerable quotation from Dryden's preface to the iEneid, in favour of
translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author
attempted the ...
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