 | 1868 - 792 էջ
...Rochester a little before he went abroad. I endeavour«!," said he, smiling, " in this poem to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece. There was Milton's style in one part, and (,'owley's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statins ; here Homer and Virgil,... | |
 | Margaret Oliphant Oliphant - 1869 - 450 էջ
...Rochester a little before he went abroad. I endeavoured," said he, smiling, " in this poem to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one...here Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian. There were also some couplets in it which I have since inserted in some of my other poems without alteration,... | |
 | 1919 - 978 էջ
...description of the Court of Neptune. By his own account this must have been a medley of many notes. "There was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley's...here Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian" (Ib. pp. 24, 277, 279). 'Alcander' he afterward burned; but detached couplets found their way into... | |
 | 1925 - 402 էջ
...began to write an epic which he entitled Alcander : I endeavoured . . . , in this poem, to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one...piece : there was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley 's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius ; here Homer and Virgil,... | |
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P I endeavoured, (said he, smiling), in this poem, to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece : there was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius; here Homer... 
