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... matter of versifying , as in all the former exercises , I take this Imita- tion of the most excellent patternes , to be the surest rule , both for phrase and whatsoever : And therefore I would have the chiefest labor to make these ...
... matter of versifying , as in all the former exercises , I take this Imita- tion of the most excellent patternes , to be the surest rule , both for phrase and whatsoever : And therefore I would have the chiefest labor to make these ...
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... matter and sense , that they were truly only French words ; at the end of a long and tedious journey I came across a passage that was rich , sublime , and elevated to the very clouds . If I had found the declivity easy and the ascent a ...
... matter and sense , that they were truly only French words ; at the end of a long and tedious journey I came across a passage that was rich , sublime , and elevated to the very clouds . If I had found the declivity easy and the ascent a ...
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... matter what the cost to him in personal suffering . Clearly the word pius has moral and spiritual overtones which are lacking in the epithets Homer applies to his heroes . Here we have an important clue to the central difference between ...
... matter what the cost to him in personal suffering . Clearly the word pius has moral and spiritual overtones which are lacking in the epithets Homer applies to his heroes . Here we have an important clue to the central difference between ...
Contents
Chapter One FIT AUDIENCE | 1 |
Chapter Two NOT LESS BUT MORE HEROIC ས ༤ | 40 |
Chapter Four THE VEIL OF INNOCENCE | 67 |
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Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition editors English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. numbers Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus