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Pagina 4
To say that Amadis and Sir Tristan have a classical foundation , may at first fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
To say that Amadis and Sir Tristan have a classical foundation , may at first fight appear paradoxical ; but if the subject were examined to the bottom , I am inclined to think , that the wildest chimeras in those books of chivalry with ...
Pagina 5
liaess of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative ; but after all his pains , this measure is not adapted to such subjects , so well as the lines of four feet , or the French numbers of Fontaine * .
liaess of our heroic measure , in this ludicrous narrative ; but after all his pains , this measure is not adapted to such subjects , so well as the lines of four feet , or the French numbers of Fontaine * .
Pagina 7
Chaucer afforded hiin many subjects of a more serious and sublime species ; and it were to be wilhed , POPR had cxercised his pencil on the pathetic story of the patience of Griglda , or Troilus and Crellida , or the complaint of the ...
Chaucer afforded hiin many subjects of a more serious and sublime species ; and it were to be wilhed , POPR had cxercised his pencil on the pathetic story of the patience of Griglda , or Troilus and Crellida , or the complaint of the ...
Pagina 9
“ Chaucer is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers ...
“ Chaucer is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practised by few writers ...
Pagina 12
... some pieces after Dryden used to fag , Experto credite , quantos In clypeum allargat , quo turbine torqueat haftam , Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage tern of Pope , unconnected with the main subject of.
... some pieces after Dryden used to fag , Experto credite , quantos In clypeum allargat , quo turbine torqueat haftam , Crebillon was ninety when he brought his Catiline on the stage tern of Pope , unconnected with the main subject of.
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