Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... Virgil , has taken both from Homer many admirable things , which were left untouched by Virgil , and from Virgil himself , where Homer could not furnish him . Yet the bodies of Virgil's and Tasso's poems were their own ; and so are all ...
... Virgil , has taken both from Homer many admirable things , which were left untouched by Virgil , and from Virgil himself , where Homer could not furnish him . Yet the bodies of Virgil's and Tasso's poems were their own ; and so are all ...
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... Virgil there- fore , being so very sparing of his words , and leaving so much to be imagined by the reader , can never be translated as he ought in any modern tongue . To make him copious is to alter his character ; and to translate him ...
... Virgil there- fore , being so very sparing of his words , and leaving so much to be imagined by the reader , can never be translated as he ought in any modern tongue . To make him copious is to alter his character ; and to translate him ...
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... Virgil's more confined ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the second part of the Ilias ; a continuation of the same ...
... Virgil's more confined ; so that if Homer had not led the way , it was not in Virgil to have begun heroic poetry ; for nothing can be more evident than that the Roman poem is but the second part of the Ilias ; a continuation of the same ...
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EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD | 1 |
A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY | 60 |
ON COMEDY FARCE AND TRAGEDY | 77 |
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