The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity tha : knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a monopoly of his learning : when thus , as I may fay , before the ufe of the loadftone ...
... Horace , had been ac- quainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity tha : knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a monopoly of his learning : when thus , as I may fay , before the ufe of the loadftone ...
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... Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their vices ; and in this excel him , that you add that pointedness of thought , which is visibly wanting in our great Roman . There is more of falt in all your verses ...
... Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their vices ; and in this excel him , that you add that pointedness of thought , which is visibly wanting in our great Roman . There is more of falt in all your verses ...
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... Horace in Lyric Poetry , but , out of deference to his friends , he attempted neither . The fame prevalence of ... Horace , in whofe excellencies both of Poems , Odes , and Satires you have equalled them , if our language had not yielded ...
... Horace in Lyric Poetry , but , out of deference to his friends , he attempted neither . The fame prevalence of ... Horace , in whofe excellencies both of Poems , Odes , and Satires you have equalled them , if our language had not yielded ...
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... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that . century the latter end of the commonwealth ; wherein we find Varro , Lucretius , and Catullus : and at the fame time lived Cicero , Saluft , and Cæfar . A ...
... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that . century the latter end of the commonwealth ; wherein we find Varro , Lucretius , and Catullus : and at the fame time lived Cicero , Saluft , and Cæfar . A ...
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... Horace and a Juvenal , in the perfon of the admirable Boileau ; whofe numbers are excellent , whofe expreffions are noble , whose thoughts are juft , whose language is pure , whose fatyr is pointed , and whofe fenfe is clofe : what he ...
... Horace and a Juvenal , in the perfon of the admirable Boileau ; whofe numbers are excellent , whofe expreffions are noble , whose thoughts are juft , whose language is pure , whose fatyr is pointed , and whofe fenfe is clofe : what he ...
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