The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... see the fuccefs of the battle , from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Christians , we are glad that we have gotten God on our fide , to maul our enemies , when we cannot do the work our- felves ? For if the poet had ...
... see the fuccefs of the battle , from the very beginning of it ; unless that , as we are Christians , we are glad that we have gotten God on our fide , to maul our enemies , when we cannot do the work our- felves ? For if the poet had ...
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... see the art of war is improved in sieges , and new inftruments of death are invented daily : fomething new in philosophy and the mechanics is difcovered almost every year : and the fcience of former ages is improved by the fucceeding ...
... see the art of war is improved in sieges , and new inftruments of death are invented daily : fomething new in philosophy and the mechanics is difcovered almost every year : and the fcience of former ages is improved by the fucceeding ...
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... see the daily examples of them in the Italian farces of Harlequin and Scaramucha . Such was the poetry of that falvage people , before it was turned into numbers , and the harmony of verfe . Lit- tle of the Saturnian verfes is now ...
... see the daily examples of them in the Italian farces of Harlequin and Scaramucha . Such was the poetry of that falvage people , before it was turned into numbers , and the harmony of verfe . Lit- tle of the Saturnian verfes is now ...
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... See here , my lord , an epitome of Epic- tetus ; the doctrine of Zeno , and the education of our Perfius . And this he expreffed , not only in all his fatires , but in the manner of his life . I will not leffen this commendation of the ...
... See here , my lord , an epitome of Epic- tetus ; the doctrine of Zeno , and the education of our Perfius . And this he expreffed , not only in all his fatires , but in the manner of his life . I will not leffen this commendation of the ...
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... see are so se- verely punished in the perfons of others . The first reafon was only an excufe for revenge ; but this fe- cond is abfolutely of a poet's office to perform : but how few lampooners are there now living , who are capable of ...
... see are so se- verely punished in the perfons of others . The first reafon was only an excufe for revenge ; but this fe- cond is abfolutely of a poet's office to perform : but how few lampooners are there now living , who are capable of ...
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