The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's VirgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... virtue truft the war . The Latians , unconcern'd , fhall fee the fight ; This arm , unaided , fhall affert your right : Then , if my proftrate body prefs the plain , To him the crown and beauteous bride remain . To whom the king ...
... virtue truft the war . The Latians , unconcern'd , fhall fee the fight ; This arm , unaided , fhall affert your right : Then , if my proftrate body prefs the plain , To him the crown and beauteous bride remain . To whom the king ...
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... happy enough to arrive at your verification . And were he translated into numbers and English , he would yet he wanting in the dignity of expreffion . That : which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Vir- which DEDICATION . 105.
... happy enough to arrive at your verification . And were he translated into numbers and English , he would yet he wanting in the dignity of expreffion . That : which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Vir- which DEDICATION . 105.
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Samuel Johnson. which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Vir- gil , which diftinguishes him from the reft of writers , is fo confpicuous in your verses , that it cafts a fhadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be feen , or ...
Samuel Johnson. which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Vir- gil , which diftinguishes him from the reft of writers , is fo confpicuous in your verses , that it cafts a fhadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be feen , or ...
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... virtue , which renders them all equal , without ftibordination or performance . Every one is most va- liant in his own legend ; only we must do them that justice to obferve , that magnanimity , which is the cha- racter of prince Arthur ...
... virtue , which renders them all equal , without ftibordination or performance . Every one is most va- liant in his own legend ; only we must do them that justice to obferve , that magnanimity , which is the cha- racter of prince Arthur ...
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... virtues ; and that thefe include no action , but that of the foul whereas , on the contrary , an Heroic Poem requires to its necessary defign , and as its laft perfection , fome great action of war , the ac- : I 4 com- complishment of ...
... virtues ; and that thefe include no action , but that of the foul whereas , on the contrary , an Heroic Poem requires to its necessary defign , and as its laft perfection , fome great action of war , the ac- : I 4 com- complishment of ...
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