The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 2C. and J. Rivington; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; J. and W.T. Clarke; Longman and Company; ... [and 17 others], 1826 |
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Page vii
... . Thirdly , it should be a great action . To consider the action of the Iliad , Eneid , and Paradise Lost , in these three several lights . Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things ; as Horace has.
... . Thirdly , it should be a great action . To consider the action of the Iliad , Eneid , and Paradise Lost , in these three several lights . Homer , to preserve the unity of his action , hastens into the midst of things ; as Horace has.
Page viii
... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great- critick and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet by imputing it , in some measure , to the very nature of ...
... Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great- critick and philosopher endeavours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet by imputing it , in some measure , to the very nature of ...
Page xi
... Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their coun- try by it . But as for Milton , he had not only a very few circum- stances upon which to raise his Poem , but was also ...
... Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their coun- try by it . But as for Milton , he had not only a very few circum- stances upon which to raise his Poem , but was also ...
Page xiii
... Homer has excelled all the heroick poets , that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suit- able to no other deity . His princes are as ...
... Homer has excelled all the heroick poets , that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suit- able to no other deity . His princes are as ...
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... Homer in the characters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Æneas is , indeed , a perfect character ; but as for Achates , though he is styled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole poem which may de- serve ...
... Homer in the characters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Æneas is , indeed , a perfect character ; but as for Achates , though he is styled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole poem which may de- serve ...
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