The Quarterly Review, Volume 101William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1857 |
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Page 83
... Æneid frequently are not , and indeed cannot be , more ornamental than the passages which they purport to embellish ... Æneid . See also Lessing's Laocoon , c . xviii . , respecting the Shield in the Æneid . Il . , ii . 494-510 . Æn ...
... Æneid frequently are not , and indeed cannot be , more ornamental than the passages which they purport to embellish ... Æneid . See also Lessing's Laocoon , c . xviii . , respecting the Shield in the Æneid . Il . , ii . 494-510 . Æn ...
Page 84
... Æneid is a feat , and an astounding feat ; but it is more like the performance of a trained athlete , between trick and strength , than the grandeur of free and simple Nature , as it is seen in the ancient warrior , in Diomed or ...
... Æneid is a feat , and an astounding feat ; but it is more like the performance of a trained athlete , between trick and strength , than the grandeur of free and simple Nature , as it is seen in the ancient warrior , in Diomed or ...
Page 96
... Æneid , for his borrowing is alike incessant and diversified ; and this it is which renders it so singular that he should at once have exposed himself to the charge of ser- vilely imitating and of wantonly disfiguring his original . If ...
... Æneid , for his borrowing is alike incessant and diversified ; and this it is which renders it so singular that he should at once have exposed himself to the charge of ser- vilely imitating and of wantonly disfiguring his original . If ...
Contents
Henry Bradbury with full descriptions of their different | 57 |
Odyssea London 1849 | 80 |
in the Crimea By an Officer on the Staff With | 168 |
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