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spects , it is , nevertheless , subject to this restraint . The poet is , indeed , at
liberty in choosing his story , and inventing his persons , but , after he has
introduced them , he is obliged to sustain them in their proper characters , as well
as in more ...
spects , it is , nevertheless , subject to this restraint . The poet is , indeed , at
liberty in choosing his story , and inventing his persons , but , after he has
introduced them , he is obliged to sustain them in their proper characters , as well
as in more ...
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On the whole , we may observe , that Spenser's adventures , separately taken as
the subject of each single Book , have not always a mutual dependance upon
each other , and consequently do not properly coutribute to constitute one ...
On the whole , we may observe , that Spenser's adventures , separately taken as
the subject of each single Book , have not always a mutual dependance upon
each other , and consequently do not properly coutribute to constitute one ...
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His own was to interrupt the proper story of each book , by dispersing it into
several ; involving by this means , and as it were intertwisting the several actions
together , in order to give something like the appearance of one action to bis
twelve ...
His own was to interrupt the proper story of each book , by dispersing it into
several ; involving by this means , and as it were intertwisting the several actions
together , in order to give something like the appearance of one action to bis
twelve ...
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This was the poet's moral : and what way of expressiog this moral in the history ,
but by making Prince Arthur appear in each adventure , and in a manner
subordinate to its proper hero ? Thus , though inferiour to each in his own
specifick virtue ...
This was the poet's moral : and what way of expressiog this moral in the history ,
but by making Prince Arthur appear in each adventure , and in a manner
subordinate to its proper hero ? Thus , though inferiour to each in his own
specifick virtue ...
Page 101
... finding the matter very proper for verse , I took the liberty to leave out what was
only necessary to that age and place , and to take or add what was proper to this
present age and occasion , by laying his sense closer , and in fewer words ...
... finding the matter very proper for verse , I took the liberty to leave out what was
only necessary to that age and place , and to take or add what was proper to this
present age and occasion , by laying his sense closer , and in fewer words ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, 9. köide The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the Critical Remarks of Hughes, Spence, Warton, Upton, and Hurd, Edmund Spenser 15–23. köide of The Poets of Great Britain |
| Author | Edmund Spenser |
| Publisher | Cadell and Davies ... and Samuel Bagster, 1807 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 mai 2007 |
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