ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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... described the great epic as " one of the most noble , and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced " ( prefatory essay to The State of Innocence , 1674 ) . Further , tradition assigned to Dryden ( a Roman Catholic ...
... described the great epic as " one of the most noble , and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced " ( prefatory essay to The State of Innocence , 1674 ) . Further , tradition assigned to Dryden ( a Roman Catholic ...
Page xxxi
... described as " The founder of taste For fresh meats , or powdered , or pickle , or paste ; Devourer of boiled , baked , roasted or sod ; An emptier of cups . " Obviously this sordid power of dull , " lust - dieted " appetite has not ...
... described as " The founder of taste For fresh meats , or powdered , or pickle , or paste ; Devourer of boiled , baked , roasted or sod ; An emptier of cups . " Obviously this sordid power of dull , " lust - dieted " appetite has not ...
Page 48
... described as ' Heroic built , though of terrestrial mould , " which is ex- plained by " formed of earth " ( 149 ) , " this man of clay ' ( 176 ) . " " 18-21 . For the division of empire cf. Iliad , XV . 190 et seq . where Poseidon ( the ...
... described as ' Heroic built , though of terrestrial mould , " which is ex- plained by " formed of earth " ( 149 ) , " this man of clay ' ( 176 ) . " " 18-21 . For the division of empire cf. Iliad , XV . 190 et seq . where Poseidon ( the ...
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... described by Homer in Odyssey , X. , who dwelt on the island of Aea , off the western coast of Italy ; daughter of the Sun - god and Perse , one of the daughters of the Ocean . On his wanderings after the Trojan war Odysseus visited her ...
... described by Homer in Odyssey , X. , who dwelt on the island of Aea , off the western coast of Italy ; daughter of the Sun - god and Perse , one of the daughters of the Ocean . On his wanderings after the Trojan war Odysseus visited her ...
Page 52
... described here is a recognised type ; cf. Dryden's poem Alexander's Feast . It was probably the traditional associa- tion of ivy with the wine - god that led to the custom of affixing an ivy - bush at the doors of taverns : whence the ...
... described here is a recognised type ; cf. Dryden's poem Alexander's Feast . It was probably the traditional associa- tion of ivy with the wine - god that led to the custom of affixing an ivy - bush at the doors of taverns : whence the ...
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