The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Himself become the mark of public spight , His honour question'd for the promis'd fight : The more he was with vulgar hate oppress'd , The more his fury boil'd within his breast : He rouz'd his vigour for the late debate ; And rais'd ...
... Himself become the mark of public spight , His honour question'd for the promis'd fight : The more he was with vulgar hate oppress'd , The more his fury boil'd within his breast : He rouz'd his vigour for the late debate ; And rais'd ...
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... himself appears in public fight Conscious of fate , defponding of the fight . Slowly he moves ; and at his altar ftands With eyes dejected , and with trembling hands : And , while he mutters undistinguish'd prayers , A livid deadness in ...
... himself appears in public fight Conscious of fate , defponding of the fight . Slowly he moves ; and at his altar ftands With eyes dejected , and with trembling hands : And , while he mutters undistinguish'd prayers , A livid deadness in ...
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... himself for his prefcription ? Neither am I ignorant , but I may justly be condemned for many of thofe faults , of which I have too liberally arraigned others . " Cynthius aurem vellet , & admonuit . ” It is enough for me , if the ...
... himself for his prefcription ? Neither am I ignorant , but I may justly be condemned for many of thofe faults , of which I have too liberally arraigned others . " Cynthius aurem vellet , & admonuit . ” It is enough for me , if the ...
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... himself when he drew the picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce . Because alfo I knew , that my betters were more concerned than I was in that fatyr : and , lastly , because Mr. Smith and Mr. Jonfon , the main pillars of of ...
... himself when he drew the picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce . Because alfo I knew , that my betters were more concerned than I was in that fatyr : and , lastly , because Mr. Smith and Mr. Jonfon , the main pillars of of ...
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... himself to have been too lyrical ; that is , to have written beneath the dignity of Heroic Verfe , in his Episodes of Sophro- nia , Erminia , and Armida ; his story is not fo pleafing as Ariofto's ; he is too flatulent fometimes , and ...
... himself to have been too lyrical ; that is , to have written beneath the dignity of Heroic Verfe , in his Episodes of Sophro- nia , Erminia , and Armida ; his story is not fo pleafing as Ariofto's ; he is too flatulent fometimes , and ...
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