The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... Boileau observes ( and Boileau will be seldom found mistaken ) , with this incurable defect , that in a contest between Heaven and Hell , we know at the beginning which is to prevail ; for S 6 " + this reason we follow Rinaldo to 142 ...
... Boileau observes ( and Boileau will be seldom found mistaken ) , with this incurable defect , that in a contest between Heaven and Hell , we know at the beginning which is to prevail ; for S 6 " + this reason we follow Rinaldo to 142 ...
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... Boileau , whose Equivoque , a poem of only three hundred and forty - six lines , took from his life eleven months to write it , and three years to revise it ? PART of his book of Fables is the first Iliad in English , intended as a ...
... Boileau , whose Equivoque , a poem of only three hundred and forty - six lines , took from his life eleven months to write it , and three years to revise it ? PART of his book of Fables is the first Iliad in English , intended as a ...
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... Boileau was the first French writer that had ever ha- zarded in verse the mention of modern war , or or the effects of gunpowder . We , who are less afraid of novelty , had already possession of those dreadful im- ages . Waller had ...
... Boileau was the first French writer that had ever ha- zarded in verse the mention of modern war , or or the effects of gunpowder . We , who are less afraid of novelty , had already possession of those dreadful im- ages . Waller had ...
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... Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short offit . He proposed a large addition to this work , of notes and observations of his own , with an entire system of the Art of Poetry , in three books , under the titles of Thought ...
... Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short offit . He proposed a large addition to this work , of notes and observations of his own , with an entire system of the Art of Poetry , in three books , under the titles of Thought ...
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... Boileau , who , from that time , conceived , ' says Tickell , an opinion of the English genius for poetry . Nothing is better known of Boileau , than that he had an injudicious and peevish contempt of modern Latin , and there- 6 • He ...
... Boileau , who , from that time , conceived , ' says Tickell , an opinion of the English genius for poetry . Nothing is better known of Boileau , than that he had an injudicious and peevish contempt of modern Latin , and there- 6 • He ...
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