The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... subjects have our cause embrac'd . 665 Above the reft , the Volfcian Amazon Contains an army in herself alone : And heads a fquadron , terrible to fight , With glittering fhields , in brazen armour bright . Yet if the foe a fingle fight ...
... subjects have our cause embrac'd . 665 Above the reft , the Volfcian Amazon Contains an army in herself alone : And heads a fquadron , terrible to fight , With glittering fhields , in brazen armour bright . Yet if the foe a fingle fight ...
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... subject is not that of an Heroic Poem , properly fo called . His design is the lofing of our happiness his event is not profperous , like that of all other Epic works : his heavenly machines are many , and human perfons are but two ...
... subject is not that of an Heroic Poem , properly fo called . His design is the lofing of our happiness his event is not profperous , like that of all other Epic works : his heavenly machines are many , and human perfons are but two ...
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... subject . I afiume not to myself any particular lights in this discovery ; they are fuch only as are obvi- ous to every man of fenfe and judgment , who loves Poe- try , and understands it . Your thoughts are always fo remote from the ...
... subject . I afiume not to myself any particular lights in this discovery ; they are fuch only as are obvi- ous to every man of fenfe and judgment , who loves Poe- try , and understands it . Your thoughts are always fo remote from the ...
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... subject . Perfius was an apt fcholar ; and when he was bidden to be obfcure in fome places , where his life and fafety were in question , took the fame counsel for all his books ; and never afterwards wrote ten lines together clearly ...
... subject . Perfius was an apt fcholar ; and when he was bidden to be obfcure in fome places , where his life and fafety were in question , took the fame counsel for all his books ; and never afterwards wrote ten lines together clearly ...
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... subjects , nor always chofe them . His ftile is conftantly accommodated to his fubject , either high or low if his fault be too much lownefs , that of Perfius is the fault of the hardness of his metaphors and obfcurity ; and fo they are ...
... subjects , nor always chofe them . His ftile is conftantly accommodated to his fubject , either high or low if his fault be too much lownefs , that of Perfius is the fault of the hardness of his metaphors and obfcurity ; and fo they are ...
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