The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volumen 2Gregg, 1969 |
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... Virgil as well as Homer abounds with machinery ; but he generally makes his gods and goddeffes behave with more dignity and decorum than the Grecian poet , and they often feem introduced rather to gratify the vanity of the Romans ( who ...
... Virgil as well as Homer abounds with machinery ; but he generally makes his gods and goddeffes behave with more dignity and decorum than the Grecian poet , and they often feem introduced rather to gratify the vanity of the Romans ( who ...
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... Virgil advances with an uniform , majestic pace ; he maintains a dignity that charms and attracts all beholders , but he feldom rifes to any aftonish- ing heights where he is not led by the Greek poet , or finks beneath the character he ...
... Virgil advances with an uniform , majestic pace ; he maintains a dignity that charms and attracts all beholders , but he feldom rifes to any aftonish- ing heights where he is not led by the Greek poet , or finks beneath the character he ...
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... Virgil follows Homer more closely in this , than in any other point I know of ; for he has employed machinery fo much and fo freely in his Eneid , that almost the whole of the story is carried on by the intervention of the gods ...
... Virgil follows Homer more closely in this , than in any other point I know of ; for he has employed machinery fo much and fo freely in his Eneid , that almost the whole of the story is carried on by the intervention of the gods ...
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