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... Greek or Latin ; and , accordingly , he now occupied himself in modernising some of the more spirited of the tales ; the Knight's Tale , ' which from its principal characters he entitled ' Palamon and Arcite , ' and others : to which he ...
... Greek or Latin ; and , accordingly , he now occupied himself in modernising some of the more spirited of the tales ; the Knight's Tale , ' which from its principal characters he entitled ' Palamon and Arcite , ' and others : to which he ...
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... Greeks : that of Augustus for Heroic , Lyric , Dramatic , Elegiac , and indeed all sorts of Poetry in the persons of ... Greek lan- guage was restored . Examples in all these are obvious : but what I would infer is this ; That , in such ...
... Greeks : that of Augustus for Heroic , Lyric , Dramatic , Elegiac , and indeed all sorts of Poetry in the persons of ... Greek lan- guage was restored . Examples in all these are obvious : but what I would infer is this ; That , in such ...
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... Greek poets borrowed from other people their art of railing , neither needed the Romans to take it from them . But , considering satire as a species of poetry , here the war begins amongst the critics . Scaliger the father will have it ...
... Greek poets borrowed from other people their art of railing , neither needed the Romans to take it from them . But , considering satire as a species of poetry , here the war begins amongst the critics . Scaliger the father will have it ...
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... Greek poem , made according to the manner of a satyr , and expressing his qualities , must properly be called satyrical , and not satyr . And thus far it is allowed that the Grecians had such poems ; but that they were wholly different ...
... Greek poem , made according to the manner of a satyr , and expressing his qualities , must properly be called satyrical , and not satyr . And thus far it is allowed that the Grecians had such poems ; but that they were wholly different ...
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... Greeks , by those who represented satyrs ; and amongst the Romans by real clowns . For , indeed , when I am reading Casaubon on these two subjects , methinks I hear the same story told twice over with very little alteration . Of which ...
... Greeks , by those who represented satyrs ; and amongst the Romans by real clowns . For , indeed , when I am reading Casaubon on these two subjects , methinks I hear the same story told twice over with very little alteration . Of which ...
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