The Preface to the FableAt the University Press, 1912 - 36 pages |
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Page v
... poetical epistle to his cousin , John Driden , and the second Ode on St Cecilia's Day , better known as Alexander's Feast . It is dedicated in a prose epistle to the Duke of Ormond , and contains a verse dedication of Palamon and Arcite ...
... poetical epistle to his cousin , John Driden , and the second Ode on St Cecilia's Day , better known as Alexander's Feast . It is dedicated in a prose epistle to the Duke of Ormond , and contains a verse dedication of Palamon and Arcite ...
Page ix
... to his com- paratively limited invention and his borrowed design . Incidentally he strikes off a terse defini- tion of epic poetry as " the imitation of human life . " His poetical imagination enabled him to see INTRODUCTION ix.
... to his com- paratively limited invention and his borrowed design . Incidentally he strikes off a terse defini- tion of epic poetry as " the imitation of human life . " His poetical imagination enabled him to see INTRODUCTION ix.
Page x
John Dryden. life . " His poetical imagination enabled him to see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales , their humours , their features , and their very dress , as distinctly as if he had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark ...
John Dryden. life . " His poetical imagination enabled him to see all the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales , their humours , their features , and their very dress , as distinctly as if he had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark ...
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... Poetical Son of Spencer , and Mr. Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our Lineal Descents and Clans , as well as other Families : Spencer more than once insinuates , that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body ; and that he was ...
... Poetical Son of Spencer , and Mr. Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our Lineal Descents and Clans , as well as other Families : Spencer more than once insinuates , that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body ; and that he was ...
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... Poetical Daughter of Calypso . The Six latter Books of Virgil's Poem , are the Four and twenty Iliads contracted : A Quarrel occasion'd by a Lady , a Single Combate , Battels fought , and a Town besieg'd . I say not this in derogation ...
... Poetical Daughter of Calypso . The Six latter Books of Virgil's Poem , are the Four and twenty Iliads contracted : A Quarrel occasion'd by a Lady , a Single Combate , Battels fought , and a Town besieg'd . I say not this in derogation ...
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