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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... speech or action in the Iliad , which the reader may not ascribe to the person who speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty , of ...
... speech or action in the Iliad , which the reader may not ascribe to the person who speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty , of ...
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... speech and behaviour , as are suitable to a superiour nature . The Angels are , indeed , as much diversified in Milton , and distinguished by their proper parts , as the gods . are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ...
... speech and behaviour , as are suitable to a superiour nature . The Angels are , indeed , as much diversified in Milton , and distinguished by their proper parts , as the gods . are in Homer or Virgil . The reader will find nothing ...
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... speech , on purpose to palliate little errours of this nature in the writings of those authors who had so many greater beauties to atone for them . If clearness and perspicuity were only to be consulted , the poet would have nothing ...
... speech , on purpose to palliate little errours of this nature in the writings of those authors who had so many greater beauties to atone for them . If clearness and perspicuity were only to be consulted , the poet would have nothing ...
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... speech . The judgement of a poet very much discovers itself in shunning the common roads of expression , without falling into such ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he must not swell into a false sublime , by endeavouring ...
... speech . The judgement of a poet very much discovers itself in shunning the common roads of expression , without falling into such ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he must not swell into a false sublime , by endeavouring ...
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... speech which this poet has naturalized to give his verse the greater sound , and throw it out of prose . The third method , mentioned by Aristotle , is what agrees with the genius of the Greek language more than with that of any other ...
... speech which this poet has naturalized to give his verse the greater sound , and throw it out of prose . The third method , mentioned by Aristotle , is what agrees with the genius of the Greek language more than with that of any other ...
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