Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... kind of meanness by passing through the mouths of the vulgar , a poet should take particular care to guard him- self against idiomatic ways of speaking . Ovid and Lucan have many poornesses of expression upon this account , as taking up ...
... kind of meanness by passing through the mouths of the vulgar , a poet should take particular care to guard him- self against idiomatic ways of speaking . Ovid and Lucan have many poornesses of expression upon this account , as taking up ...
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... kind of implex fable , wherein the event is unhappy , is more apt to affect an audience than that of the first kind ; not- withstanding many excellent pieces among the ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late ...
... kind of implex fable , wherein the event is unhappy , is more apt to affect an audience than that of the first kind ; not- withstanding many excellent pieces among the ancients , as well as most of those which have been written of late ...
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... kind of speech , that some of the greatest ancients have been guilty of it , and that Aristotle himself has given it a place in his Rhetoric among the beauties of that art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it is I think at ...
... kind of speech , that some of the greatest ancients have been guilty of it , and that Aristotle himself has given it a place in his Rhetoric among the beauties of that art . But as it is in itself poor and trifling , it is I think at ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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