English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones Oxford University Press, 1947 - 394 páginas |
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... Virgil was of a quiet , sedate temper ; Homer was violent , impetu- ous , and full of fire . The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties ...
... Virgil was of a quiet , sedate temper ; Homer was violent , impetu- ous , and full of fire . The chief talent of Virgil was propriety of thoughts , and ornament of words : Homer was rapid in his thoughts , and took all the liberties ...
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... Virgil's poem are the four - and - twenty Iliads contracted ; a quarrel occasioned by a lady , a single combat , battles fought , and a town besieged . I say not this in deroga- tion to Virgil , neither do I contradict anything which I ...
... Virgil's poem are the four - and - twenty Iliads contracted ; a quarrel occasioned by a lady , a single combat , battles fought , and a town besieged . I say not this in deroga- tion to Virgil , neither do I contradict anything which I ...
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... Virgil , the dis criminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of Virgil difficult ...
... Virgil , the dis criminative excellence of Homer is elevation and comprehension of thought , and that of Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of Virgil difficult ...
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