Curiosities of LiteratureBaudry, 1835 - 447 páginas |
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... poets whatever was most remarkable in the Iliad and Odys- sey . Naucrates even points out the source in the library ... poet , have also condemned the vanity of Pindar ; the rough ver ses of Eschylus ; and Euripides , for the conduct of ...
... poets whatever was most remarkable in the Iliad and Odys- sey . Naucrates even points out the source in the library ... poet , have also condemned the vanity of Pindar ; the rough ver ses of Eschylus ; and Euripides , for the conduct of ...
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... poets were continually threatened . They could not imagine a poet , without supposing him to hold an intercourse with some demon . This was , as Abbé Resnel observes , having a most exalted idea of poetry , though a very bad one of poets ...
... poets were continually threatened . They could not imagine a poet , without supposing him to hold an intercourse with some demon . This was , as Abbé Resnel observes , having a most exalted idea of poetry , though a very bad one of poets ...
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... poet's querulous verses must not be forgottten- Full little knowest thou , that hast not try'd " What Hell it is ... poetic compositions . Sir Walter Raleigh's unfinished History of the World , which leaves us to regret that later ages ...
... poet's querulous verses must not be forgottten- Full little knowest thou , that hast not try'd " What Hell it is ... poetic compositions . Sir Walter Raleigh's unfinished History of the World , which leaves us to regret that later ages ...
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... poet whom Pliny , in Book I , Letter XVI , has feelingly described . He tells us that his works are never out of my hands ; and whether I sit down to write any thing my- self , or to revise what I have already wrote , or am in a dis ...
... poet whom Pliny , in Book I , Letter XVI , has feelingly described . He tells us that his works are never out of my hands ; and whether I sit down to write any thing my- self , or to revise what I have already wrote , or am in a dis ...
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... poet , and his themes were religious . He formed the extravagant project of sub- stituting a religious Virgil and Ovid merely by adapting his works to their titles . His Christian Virgil consists , like the Pagan Virgil of Eclogues ...
... poet , and his themes were religious . He formed the extravagant project of sub- stituting a religious Virgil and Ovid merely by adapting his works to their titles . His Christian Virgil consists , like the Pagan Virgil of Eclogues ...
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