epic machinery

American  

noun

1. machinery5

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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.

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Albeit intensely modern it was to have the indispensable epic 'machinery'.

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Such was the degradation to which the noble epic machinery had now sunk.

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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.

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The Greek mythology forms the epic machinery of the Lusiad.

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