An Essay Upon the Civil Wars of France,: Extracted from Curious Manuscripts. : And Also Upon the Epick Poetry of the European Nations, from Homer Down to Milton, Volume 8 |
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... to let me know fome notable ( though perhaps not enough known } Paffages of their Lives , will confer an Ob- ligation not only upon me , lick . but upon the Pub- Like- Likewife if there are any new Inventions or Undertakings , ( iii )
... to let me know fome notable ( though perhaps not enough known } Paffages of their Lives , will confer an Ob- ligation not only upon me , lick . but upon the Pub- Like- Likewife if there are any new Inventions or Undertakings , ( iii )
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... Inventions or Undertakings , which have obtained or deferved Success , I fhall be obliged to thofe who will be fo kind as to give me any Information of that nature . And fhall either quote my Authors , or obferve a religious Silence ...
... Inventions or Undertakings , which have obtained or deferved Success , I fhall be obliged to thofe who will be fo kind as to give me any Information of that nature . And fhall either quote my Authors , or obferve a religious Silence ...
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... and as worthy of our Search , as remote from our Conceptions . " But it is not with the Inventions of Art , as with the Works of Nature . The fame Fancy which hath invented Poe- try , try , changes every day all its Produ- ctions , ( 38 )
... and as worthy of our Search , as remote from our Conceptions . " But it is not with the Inventions of Art , as with the Works of Nature . The fame Fancy which hath invented Poe- try , try , changes every day all its Produ- ctions , ( 38 )
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... Invention to the Hiftory , for if one fhould begin by laying down a Fable intirely of his own Imagination , all the Records in the Univerfe could not afford him an Event , adequate to his Plan ; he muft needs alter it . And I cannot ...
... Invention to the Hiftory , for if one fhould begin by laying down a Fable intirely of his own Imagination , all the Records in the Univerfe could not afford him an Event , adequate to his Plan ; he muft needs alter it . And I cannot ...
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... great Clog to his Poetical Invention , ( if he had any . ) The greater his Subject was , the grea- ter the Difficulty . Cafar and Pompey were , no doubt , Men of higher Impor- tance tance than Agamemnon , or Æneas ; and the War ( 62 )
... great Clog to his Poetical Invention , ( if he had any . ) The greater his Subject was , the grea- ter the Difficulty . Cafar and Pompey were , no doubt , Men of higher Impor- tance tance than Agamemnon , or Æneas ; and the War ( 62 )
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Page 76 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
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Page 38 - With a blast, he began his essay on the epic in an attack upon the rule-makers and theorists: The greatest Part of the Criticks have fetch'd the Rules of Epick Poetry from the Books of Homer, according to the Custom, or rather, to the Weakness of Men, who mistake commonly the Beginning of an Art, for the Principles of the Art itself...
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Page 107 - Priests sometimes, represent God as a Tyrant infinitely powerful. But the God of Milton is always a Creator, a Father, and a Judge, nor is his Vengeance jarring with his Mercy, nor his Predeterminations repugnant to the Liberty of Man. These are the Pictures which lift up indeed the Soul of the Reader. Milton in that Point as well as in many others is as far above the ancient Poets as the Christian Religion is above the Heathen Fables. But he hath especially an...
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Page 103 - The Subject of the Play was the Fall of Man; the Actors, God, the Devils, the Angels, Adam, Eve, the Serpent, Death, and the Seven Mortal Sins. That...
Page 89 - Now, let no doubting hand the task decline ; Cut you the wood, and let the guilt be mine.
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