 | 1785 - 428 דפים
...TV as before. CRITI. CKITICI3MS ON THE ROI.LIAD. No. I. " Cedite Romani Scriptores, cedite Crieci." Nothing can be more confonant to the advice of Horace...action is one, entire, and great event, being the p: "Creation of a child on the wife of a Saxon Drummer. The Poem opens with a moft laboured and mafterly... | |
 | 1785 - 508 דפים
...fubjec't of animadvernon, is a fuppolitious heroic poem, " the action of which," a& we are informed, " is one, entire, and great event, being the procreation of a child upon the wife of a Saxon drummer." The hero is Rollo, Duke of Normandy, and father of William the Conqueror.... | |
 | 1791 - 648 דפים
...ROLLO was before. . CRITICISMS ON THE ROLLIAD. NUMBER I. " Credite Romani Scriptores, cedite Grzeci." NOTHING can be more confonant to the advice of Horace and Ariftotle, than the conduft of our author throughout this poem. The a6tion is one, entire and great event, being the procreation... | |
 | 1799 - 574 דפים
...Roman! Scriptores, cedite Graeci." OTHING can be more consonant to the advice of Horace and Aristotle, than the conduct of our author throughout this Poem....the wife of a Saxon Drummer. The Poem opens with a most laboured and masterly description of a storm. ROLLO'S state of mind in this arduous situation... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - 1990 - 252 דפים
...poetics as a whole. For instance, they parody the neoclassical demand for unity of action as follows: The action is one, entire and great event, being the procreation of a child on the wife of a Saxon Drummer.25 Despite its narrowly contemporary subject-matter, Criticisms on the Rolliad is still worth... | |
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Nothing can be more confonant to the advice of Horace and Ariftotle than the conduct of our author throughout this poem. The action is one, entire, and great event, being the procreation of a child on the wife of a Saxon Drummer. 