Excerpt from The Rape of Proserpine: With Other Poems In the Rape of Proserpine the author seems to have enlarged with considerable variation, upon the fable sketched out by ovid in his Metamorphoses; the con struction is not purely epic; the most important incidents are too much hurried in the opening of the piece, and other deviations from strict rule may be found; yet such is the splendor and majesty of this beautiful production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic ...
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Excerpt from The Rape of Proserpine: With Other Poems In the Rape of Proserpine the author seems to have enlarged with considerable variation, upon the fable sketched out by ovid in his Metamorphoses; the con struction is not purely epic; the most important incidents are too much hurried in the opening of the piece, and other deviations from strict rule may be found; yet such is the splendor and majesty of this beautiful production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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