The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 286
... critics who have written on the subject of epic poetry , and who insist that all the primitive epics - those , indeed , which they alone deign to style such - have been created by a sort of spontaneous agglutination in the popular mind ...
... critics who have written on the subject of epic poetry , and who insist that all the primitive epics - those , indeed , which they alone deign to style such - have been created by a sort of spontaneous agglutination in the popular mind ...
Page 324
... criticism , to which it is our object now to invite the attention of our readers . If we cannot claim for our subject the popular interest that waits on battles waged , whether at home or abroad , in the council or the field , for ...
... criticism , to which it is our object now to invite the attention of our readers . If we cannot claim for our subject the popular interest that waits on battles waged , whether at home or abroad , in the council or the field , for ...
Page 325
... criticism . And yet it is from these Dutch drudges that we now venture to invite English scholars to learn as our fathers learned , and not to be ashamed to replenish our lamps from the same oil that filled theirs in the first ages of ...
... criticism . And yet it is from these Dutch drudges that we now venture to invite English scholars to learn as our fathers learned , and not to be ashamed to replenish our lamps from the same oil that filled theirs in the first ages of ...
Page 326
... criticism . It was soon discovered that not even Aldine care and learning had availed to secure books thus produced from a host of faults , which were soon multiplied by conjectural emendations , like the heads of the hydra beneath the ...
... criticism . It was soon discovered that not even Aldine care and learning had availed to secure books thus produced from a host of faults , which were soon multiplied by conjectural emendations , like the heads of the hydra beneath the ...
Page 328
... criticism of which he had set the example ; for of all forms of composition , dramatic dialogue is one of the most liable to corruption by copyists , who , even if they could see the separate meaning of each speech , continually mistake ...
... criticism of which he had set the example ; for of all forms of composition , dramatic dialogue is one of the most liable to corruption by copyists , who , even if they could see the separate meaning of each speech , continually mistake ...
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