 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...EARL Of MULGRAVE, ETC. AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OP THE GARTER. A HEROIC poem, truly snch, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of...is conveyed in verse, that it may delight while it instrncts: the action of it is always one, entire, and great. The least and most trivial episodes or... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...cousin. SidKg. Musidorus was famous over all Asia for his henial enterprizes. Id. An heroick poem is the greatest work which the soul of man is capable...perform : the design of it is to form the mind to heroick virtue by example. DryJe*. Though you have courage in an heroical degree, I ascribe it to you... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...was famous over all Asia for hi* enterprises. /i£. An heroick poem is the greatest work which ch^ soul of man is capable to perform : the design of it is to form the miad to heroick virtue by example. Though you have courage in an htroical degree, I ascribe it to you... | |
 | Virgil - 1834 - 314 pages
...LORD MARQUIS OF NORMANBY, KARL OF MULORAVE, &C. AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. AN HEROIC poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest...the mind to heroic virtue by example. It is conveyed inverse, that it may delight while'it instructs : the action of it is always one, entire, and great.... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...equal in rank to the author of the most excellent tragedy ? Certainly not. Dryden has said, that " an Heroic Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest...work which the soul of man is capable to perform." Could he have said this of an epigram without exciting a universal laugh* ? A poet who executes an... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...equal in rank to the author of the most excellent tragedy ? Certainly not. Dryden has said, that " an Heroic Poem, truly Such, is undoubtedly the greatest...work which the soul of man is capable to perform." Could he have said this of an epigram without exciting a universal laugh* ? A poet who executes an... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...equal in rank to the author of the most excellent tragedy ? Certainly not. Dryden has said, that " an Heroic Poem, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest...work which the soul of man is capable to perform." Could he have said this of an epigram without exciting a universal laugh* ? A poet who executes an... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pages
...is, and ought to be, glorious John Dryden tells us in a very few words. " A heroic poem," he says, " truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform." And so it is. "A work," BS.VS Milton, "not to be raiserl from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...GARTER. A HEROtC poem, truly such, is undouhtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capahle to perform. The design of it is to form the mind to heroic virtue hy example. It is conveyed in verse, that it may delight, while it instructs : the action of it is... | |
 | 1846 - 636 pages
...what it ought to be, glorious John Dryden tells us in a very few words. " A heroic poem," he says, " truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man js capable to perform." And so it is. " A work," says Milton, " not to be raised from the heat of youth... | |
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A HEROIC POEM, truly such, is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform. 
