The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... 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 , than I have feen in any of the moderns , or even of the ancients : but ...
... 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 , than I have feen in any of the moderns , or even of the ancients : but ...
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... vices , and the ftories that were told of them in bake - houses and barbers - fhops . When they began to be somewhat better bred , and were entering , as I may fay , into the firft rudiments of civil converfation , they left thefe hedge ...
... vices , and the ftories that were told of them in bake - houses and barbers - fhops . When they began to be somewhat better bred , and were entering , as I may fay , into the firft rudiments of civil converfation , they left thefe hedge ...
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... vices : and by this means , avoiding the danger of any ill fuc- cefs , in a public reprefentation , he hoped to be as well received in the cabinet as Andronicus had been upon the ftage . The event was anfwerable to his expecta- tion ...
... vices : and by this means , avoiding the danger of any ill fuc- cefs , in a public reprefentation , he hoped to be as well received in the cabinet as Andronicus had been upon the ftage . The event was anfwerable to his expecta- tion ...
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... vices : fuch as were the poems Lucilius , of Horace , and of Perfius . But in former times , the name of fatire was given to poems , which were compofed of several sorts of verfes : fuch as were made by Ennius and Pacuvius more fully ...
... vices : fuch as were the poems Lucilius , of Horace , and of Perfius . But in former times , the name of fatire was given to poems , which were compofed of several sorts of verfes : fuch as were made by Ennius and Pacuvius more fully ...
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... vice , or expofed folly ; but for others alfo , where virtue was recommended . But in our modern languages we apply it only to the invective poems , where the very name of fatire is for- midable to thofe perfons , who would appear to ...
... vice , or expofed folly ; but for others alfo , where virtue was recommended . But in our modern languages we apply it only to the invective poems , where the very name of fatire is for- midable to thofe perfons , who would appear to ...
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