The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fecond attribute : mercy , beneficence , and com- paffion , claim precedence , as they are firft in the divine nature . An intrepid courage , which is inherent in your Grace , is at beft but a holiday kind of virtue , to be seldom ...
... fecond attribute : mercy , beneficence , and com- paffion , claim precedence , as they are firft in the divine nature . An intrepid courage , which is inherent in your Grace , is at beft but a holiday kind of virtue , to be seldom ...
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... fecond part , as at a fecond fitting , though I alter not the draught , I muft touch the fame features over again , and change the VOL . III . C dead dead colouring of the whole . In general I will PREFACE . 17.
... fecond part , as at a fecond fitting , though I alter not the draught , I muft touch the fame features over again , and change the VOL . III . C dead dead colouring of the whole . In general I will PREFACE . 17.
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... fecond part of the Ilias ; a continuation of the fame ftory : and the perfons already formed : the manners of Æneas are those of Hector fuperadded to those which Homer gave him . The Adventures of Ulyffes in the Odyffeis are imitated in ...
... fecond part of the Ilias ; a continuation of the fame ftory : and the perfons already formed : the manners of Æneas are those of Hector fuperadded to those which Homer gave him . The Adventures of Ulyffes in the Odyffeis are imitated in ...
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... fecond place . Mr Hobbes , in the preface to his own bald tranflation of the Ilias , ( studying poetry as he did mathematicks , when it was too late ) Mr Hobbes , I fay , begins the praife of Homer where he fhould have ended it . tells ...
... fecond place . Mr Hobbes , in the preface to his own bald tranflation of the Ilias , ( studying poetry as he did mathematicks , when it was too late ) Mr Hobbes , I fay , begins the praife of Homer where he fhould have ended it . tells ...
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... - ference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demofthenes and Tully . One perfuades ; the other commands . , You never cool while you read Homer , C 3 Homer , even not in the fecond book ( a PREFACE . 21.
... - ference which Longinus makes betwixt the effects of eloquence in Demofthenes and Tully . One perfuades ; the other commands . , You never cool while you read Homer , C 3 Homer , even not in the fecond book ( a PREFACE . 21.
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