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epic machinery
noun
- machinery5
Example Sentences
Leaving aside the question whether the epic be obsolete or not, it may be doubted whether the history of a single man’s mind is universal enough in its interest to furnish all the requirements of the epic machinery, and it may be more than doubted whether a poet’s philosophy be ordinary metaphysics, divisible into chapter and section.
Albeit intensely modern it was to have the indispensable epic 'machinery'.
Such was the degradation to which the noble epic machinery had now sunk.
Leaving aside the question whether the epic be obsolete or not, it may be doubted whether the history of a single man's mind is universal enough in its interest to furnish all the requirements of the epic machinery, and it may be more than doubted whether a poet's philosophy be ordinary metaphysics, divisible into chapter and section.
The Greek mythology forms the epic machinery of the Lusiad.
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