The Works of the English Poets1779 |
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... seems to have been the art he excelled moft in , and valued himself most upon ; for all writers agree , he declaimed in public when but fourteen years old , both in Greek and Latin , with universal applaufe . To this purpose it is ...
... seems to have been the art he excelled moft in , and valued himself most upon ; for all writers agree , he declaimed in public when but fourteen years old , both in Greek and Latin , with universal applaufe . To this purpose it is ...
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... seem to live only on the excrements of authors . I beg leave to tell these gentlemen , that Lucan is not to be tried by thofe rules of an Epic Poem , which they have drawn from the Iliad or Æneid ; for if they allow him not the honour ...
... seem to live only on the excrements of authors . I beg leave to tell these gentlemen , that Lucan is not to be tried by thofe rules of an Epic Poem , which they have drawn from the Iliad or Æneid ; for if they allow him not the honour ...
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... seem to fee , than read of those transactions . But as for enterprizes and battles , you imagine them not related , but acted : towns alarmed , armies engaged , the eagerness and terror of the feveral foldiers , feem prefent to your ...
... seem to fee , than read of those transactions . But as for enterprizes and battles , you imagine them not related , but acted : towns alarmed , armies engaged , the eagerness and terror of the feveral foldiers , feem prefent to your ...
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... seems to move with the devout folemnity of a reverend pre- late : Lucan to march with the noble haughtiness of a victorious general . One owes most to labour and ap- plication ; the other to nature and practice : one lulls the foul with ...
... seems to move with the devout folemnity of a reverend pre- late : Lucan to march with the noble haughtiness of a victorious general . One owes most to labour and ap- plication ; the other to nature and practice : one lulls the foul with ...
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... seem to put a gentler nature on ; Patient their prifon , and mankind they bear , Fawn on their lords , and looks lefs horrid wear : But let the taste of flaughter be renew'd , And their fell jaws again with gore imbrued ; 395 Then ...
... seem to put a gentler nature on ; Patient their prifon , and mankind they bear , Fawn on their lords , and looks lefs horrid wear : But let the taste of flaughter be renew'd , And their fell jaws again with gore imbrued ; 395 Then ...
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