 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...best parts of the best authors, and always ought to be improved in the imitation ; so that vastly less invention and judgment is required to make a good...are told by the old writer of the Life of Virgil, that it was a saying of that poet, that it would be easier to take the club from Hercules, than a line... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...best Parts of the best Authors, and always ought to be improved in the Imitation: So that vastly less Invention and Judgment is required to make a good...VIRGIL, it was a Saying of that Poet's, That it would be easier to take the Club from Hercules, than a Line from HOMER. But, from MILTON'S having refined exceedingly... | |
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... Pleasure we have from what is new, and the latter encroaches on that we receive from Imitations. . . . The Passages a Poet is to imitate ought to be selected with great Care, and should ever be the best Parts of the best Authors, and always ought... 