The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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... Virgil , they must do him the justice at least , as not to try him by laws founded on their model . The Pharfalia is properly an Hiftorical Heroic Poem , be- cause the subject is a known true ftory . Now with our late critics , Truth is ...
... Virgil , they must do him the justice at least , as not to try him by laws founded on their model . The Pharfalia is properly an Hiftorical Heroic Poem , be- cause the subject is a known true ftory . Now with our late critics , Truth is ...
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... Virgil is yet more straitened in his fubject . Æneas , a poor fugitive from Troy , with a handful of followers , fettles at laft in Italy ; and all the empire that immor- tal pen could give him , is but a few miles upon the banks of the ...
... Virgil is yet more straitened in his fubject . Æneas , a poor fugitive from Troy , with a handful of followers , fettles at laft in Italy ; and all the empire that immor- tal pen could give him , is but a few miles upon the banks of the ...
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... if they had been fent him from the immortal gods . To leave this digreffion . It were the height of arrogance to detract ever fo little from Homer or Virgil , who who have kept poffeffion of the first places , among 28 PREFACE TO.
... if they had been fent him from the immortal gods . To leave this digreffion . It were the height of arrogance to detract ever fo little from Homer or Virgil , who who have kept poffeffion of the first places , among 28 PREFACE TO.
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... Virgil nothing , to have bestowed it on his hero ; and he might as eafily have thrown him upon the coaft of Carthage in a calm temper of mind , as in a panic fear.folga St. Evremont is very severe upon Virgil on this ac- count , and has ...
... Virgil nothing , to have bestowed it on his hero ; and he might as eafily have thrown him upon the coaft of Carthage in a calm temper of mind , as in a panic fear.folga St. Evremont is very severe upon Virgil on this ac- count , and has ...
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... Virgil ; notwithstanding the first has no fupernatural cause assigned for it , and the latter is raised by a god , at the inftigation of a goddefą , that was both wife and fifter of Jupiter . In the Pharfalia , most of the transactions ...
... Virgil ; notwithstanding the first has no fupernatural cause assigned for it , and the latter is raised by a god , at the inftigation of a goddefą , that was both wife and fifter of Jupiter . In the Pharfalia , most of the transactions ...
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