In this respect it would resemble Spenser's Faerie Queene, or perhaps more importantly, Virgil's Aeneid -- other nationalist epics.

这样的话它就会与斯宾塞的《仙后》，更重要的，维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯记》等一些民族主义史诗相类似。

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Nonetheless, The Faerie Queenecan be said, however strangely, to be the first great poetic celebration in English of the institution of marriage.

然而无论《仙后》多么与众不同，它仍可被称为，第一部伟大的有关婚姻的,英文诗歌体盛典。

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Milton seems to have dug around rather carefully in his copy of the Faerie Queene, and he's come up with this illusion.

弥尔顿似乎极其小心地模仿着《仙后》,且他出现了这样一种幻想。

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