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... . Cato . Its success due to political excitement . Dennis's criticisms . Absence of action in the play . Excellence of its " sentences . " REVIVAL AND ADAPTATION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS : NICHOLAS ROWE xxvi A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY.
... . Cato . Its success due to political excitement . Dennis's criticisms . Absence of action in the play . Excellence of its " sentences . " REVIVAL AND ADAPTATION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS : NICHOLAS ROWE xxvi A HISTORY OF ENGLISH POETRY.
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... action , like Machiavelli , could dream of freeing the soil of Italy from foreign usurpation by the enrolment of a civic militia . With the usual clairvoyance of his countrymen , Ariosto understood the decadence of liberty and morals in ...
... action , like Machiavelli , could dream of freeing the soil of Italy from foreign usurpation by the enrolment of a civic militia . With the usual clairvoyance of his countrymen , Ariosto understood the decadence of liberty and morals in ...
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... actions of the Heathen afford us a fitting subject for the construction of a perfect epic poem , because in such poems we either need to have recourse sometimes to the gods who were worshipped by the heathen , or there is no need for us ...
... actions of the Heathen afford us a fitting subject for the construction of a perfect epic poem , because in such poems we either need to have recourse sometimes to the gods who were worshipped by the heathen , or there is no need for us ...
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... action of his poem , represented by Godfrey of Bouillon , and the fanciful episodes , represented by Rinaldo and Armida , Tancred and Clorinda . So too in respect of his diction . Driven in one direction by his desire to imitate the ...
... action of his poem , represented by Godfrey of Bouillon , and the fanciful episodes , represented by Rinaldo and Armida , Tancred and Clorinda . So too in respect of his diction . Driven in one direction by his desire to imitate the ...
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... action thus declined in the narrative forms of poetry invented by the Italians , the effects of the Classical Renaissance , working in a decayed society , are vividly seen in the style of their lyric verse . Dante and Petrarch had given ...
... action thus declined in the narrative forms of poetry invented by the Italians , the effects of the Classical Renaissance , working in a decayed society , are vividly seen in the style of their lyric verse . Dante and Petrarch had given ...
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Page 215 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Page 352 - No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear: And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date: But misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone: But I beneath...
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Page 352 - And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as they, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead.
Page 389 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 427 - I believe you have heard that, after all the applauses of the opposite faction, my Lord Bolingbroke sent for Booth, who played Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, as he expressed it, for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator.
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Page 393 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.