The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... Theocritus , and as many odes of Horace . But finding , or at least thinking I found , something that was more pleasing in them , than my ordinary productions , I encouraged myself to renew my old acquaintance with Lucretius and Virgil ...
... Theocritus , and as many odes of Horace . But finding , or at least thinking I found , something that was more pleasing in them , than my ordinary productions , I encouraged myself to renew my old acquaintance with Lucretius and Virgil ...
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... Theocritus upon my hands ; but the Greek gentleman shall quickly be dispatched , because I have more business with the Roman . That which distinguishes Theocritus from all other poets , both Greck and Latin , and which raises him even ...
... Theocritus upon my hands ; but the Greek gentleman shall quickly be dispatched , because I have more business with the Roman . That which distinguishes Theocritus from all other poets , both Greck and Latin , and which raises him even ...
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... Theocritus and Tasso have taken theirs from cottages and plains . It was said of Tasso , in relation to his similitudes , mai csce del bosco ; that he never departed from the woods ; that is , all his comparisons were taken from the ...
... Theocritus and Tasso have taken theirs from cottages and plains . It was said of Tasso , in relation to his similitudes , mai csce del bosco ; that he never departed from the woods ; that is , all his comparisons were taken from the ...
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... Theocritus writ to Sicilians , who spoke that dialect ; and I direct this part of my translations to our ladies , who neither understand nor will take pleasure in such homely expressions . I proceed to Horace . Take him in parts , and ...
... Theocritus writ to Sicilians , who spoke that dialect ; and I direct this part of my translations to our ladies , who neither understand nor will take pleasure in such homely expressions . I proceed to Horace . Take him in parts , and ...
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... of Lausus and Mezentius , and the Speech of Venus to Vulcan , ( book viii . ) from Virgil ; various portions of the first five books of Lucretius ; three Idylliums of Theocritus ; the third Ode of the first book of SECOND MISCELLANY . 51.
... of Lausus and Mezentius , and the Speech of Venus to Vulcan , ( book viii . ) from Virgil ; various portions of the first five books of Lucretius ; three Idylliums of Theocritus ; the third Ode of the first book of SECOND MISCELLANY . 51.
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