At twenty he published a very juvenile production in verse, called 'The Highlandman: a Heroic Poem, in six cantos.
Besides his smaller pieces, Stirling wrote several tragedies, including one on Julius Caesar; an heroic poem; a poem addressed to Prince Henry, the son of James I.
There is noheroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; and there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Let him who would write heroic poems make his life a heroic poem.
He who would write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic poem.
There is in these several Characters of Homer, a certain Dignity as well as Novelty, which adapts them in a more peculiar manner to the Nature of an Heroic Poem.
It is not an Heroic Poem, but a Divine one, and indeed of a new species.
Next appears an 'heroic poem' by Chapelain, published in 1656, entitled La Pucelle.
But gratitude need not conceal the truth, that the style of the ballad is unlike the style of an heroic poem.
As for Mr Milton, whom we all admire with so much justice, his subject is not that of an heroic poem, properly so called.
But, after all these advantages, an heroic poem is certainly the greatest work of human nature.
A friend playfully challenged Boileau to write a heroic poem on the subject, to verify his own theory that the excellence of a heroic poem depended upon the power of the inventor to sustain and enlarge upon a slender groundwork.
Probably like most gifted poets he felt from his earliest years the ambition to write a heroic poem.
And, however unsuitable such a consecutive narrative might be for a heroic poem, there was something in it that corresponded with the national sentiment, and in a changed form it re-appears in the Aeneid.
In the mean time, my lord, I take the confidence to present you with a tragedy, the characters of which are the nearest to those of an heroic poem.
But this, I think, is rather a play in narration, as I may call it, than an heroic poem.
It failed in its principal purpose of reconciliation, but it has given us the best mock-heroic poem in the language.
His Davideis is an heroic poemon the troubles of King David.
But after all these advantages an heroic poem is certainly the greatest work of human nature.
He writes it in the French heroic verse, and calls it an heroic poem; his subject is trivial, but his verse is noble.
As for Mr. Milton, whom we all admire with so much justice, his subject is not that of an heroic poem, properly so called.
In 1685 he was a Tory, commemorating, by a heroic poem, the coronation of James II.
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