Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Rinehart, 1950 - 376 páginas This book is an invitation to the reading of Milton. The major portion of the volumes consists of sixteen extended essays and studies from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries." -- Preface. |
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... Homer . Milton's chief talent , and , indeed , his distinguishing excel- lence , lies in the sublimity of his thoughts . There are others of the moderns who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his ...
... Homer . Milton's chief talent , and , indeed , his distinguishing excel- lence , lies in the sublimity of his thoughts . There are others of the moderns who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his ...
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... Homer has opened a great field of raillery to men of more delicacy than greatness of genius , by the homeliness of some of his sentiments . But , as I have before said , these are rather to be imputed to the simplicity of the age in ...
... Homer has opened a great field of raillery to men of more delicacy than greatness of genius , by the homeliness of some of his sentiments . But , as I have before said , these are rather to be imputed to the simplicity of the age in ...
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... Homer ; and that is to be a Copyist instead of an Original . Tis true , the Epick Poets who have liv'd since Homer , have most of them been Originals in their Fables , which are the very Souls of their Poems ; but in their manner of ...
... Homer ; and that is to be a Copyist instead of an Original . Tis true , the Epick Poets who have liv'd since Homer , have most of them been Originals in their Fables , which are the very Souls of their Poems ; but in their manner of ...
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Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison Six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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