The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1810 |
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Page 89
... poem , as it was to the Pharsalia , that the sub- ject was too near his own times , there would not be much validity in the objection ; a perusal of the poem , however , has forced us to withdraw the assent which we were previously in ...
... poem , as it was to the Pharsalia , that the sub- ject was too near his own times , there would not be much validity in the objection ; a perusal of the poem , however , has forced us to withdraw the assent which we were previously in ...
Page 148
... poem excites . We know not , indeed , why we should in this in- stance hesitate to speak out at once more boldly , and say , albeit at the hazard of displeasing the more tender part of our readers , that we wish the circumstances to ...
... poem excites . We know not , indeed , why we should in this in- stance hesitate to speak out at once more boldly , and say , albeit at the hazard of displeasing the more tender part of our readers , that we wish the circumstances to ...
Page 338
... poem would no more have found admirers among men of taste , than we have reason to believe it produced disciples among the culti- vators of the soil . And with regard to those passages upon which its immortality is founded , they are so ...
... poem would no more have found admirers among men of taste , than we have reason to believe it produced disciples among the culti- vators of the soil . And with regard to those passages upon which its immortality is founded , they are so ...
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