First book of the Faerie Queene, canto I-IVF. C. & J. Rivington, 1805 |
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... ancient English poets , Chaucer and Spenfer , who may , perhaps , be reckoned as exceptions to this remark : These feem to have taken deep root , like old British oaks , and to flourish in defiance of all the injuries of time and ...
... ancient English poets , Chaucer and Spenfer , who may , perhaps , be reckoned as exceptions to this remark : These feem to have taken deep root , like old British oaks , and to flourish in defiance of all the injuries of time and ...
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... Ancients was univerfally looked upon to be the principal part of poetry . The power of raifing images or refemblances of things , giving them life and action , and prefenting them as it were before the eyes , was thought to have ...
... Ancients was univerfally looked upon to be the principal part of poetry . The power of raifing images or refemblances of things , giving them life and action , and prefenting them as it were before the eyes , was thought to have ...
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... ancient allegories ex- tant , the author gives reafon and speech to beasts , infects , and plants ; and by that means covertly in- ftructs mankind in the most important incidents and concerns of their lives . I am not infenfible that ...
... ancient allegories ex- tant , the author gives reafon and speech to beasts , infects , and plants ; and by that means covertly in- ftructs mankind in the most important incidents and concerns of their lives . I am not infenfible that ...
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... ancient and beft imagined allegories extant . Scylla , Cha- rybdis , and the Syrens , in the fame poem , are of the fame nature , and are creatures purely allego- rical but the Harpies in Virgil , which difturbed Eneas and his followers ...
... ancient and beft imagined allegories extant . Scylla , Cha- rybdis , and the Syrens , in the fame poem , are of the fame nature , and are creatures purely allego- rical but the Harpies in Virgil , which difturbed Eneas and his followers ...
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... ancient stage . Thus , in a tragedy of Æfchylus , Strength is introduced affifting Vulcan to bind Pro- metheus to a rock ; and in one of Euripides , Death comes to the house of Admetus to demand Alceftis , who had offered herself to die ...
... ancient stage . Thus , in a tragedy of Æfchylus , Strength is introduced affifting Vulcan to bind Pro- metheus to a rock ; and in one of Euripides , Death comes to the house of Admetus to demand Alceftis , who had offered herself to die ...
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