The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... turn of verfe which they had in the original ; and this , I may fay without vanity , is not the talent of every poet : he who has arrived the nearest to it , is the ingenious and learn- ed Sandys , the beft verfifier of the former age ...
... turn of verfe which they had in the original ; and this , I may fay without vanity , is not the talent of every poet : he who has arrived the nearest to it , is the ingenious and learn- ed Sandys , the beft verfifier of the former age ...
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... turning fome of the Canterbury tales into our language , as it is now refined ; for by this means both the poets being fet in the fame light , and dressed in the fame English habit , story to be compared with ftory , a certain judgment ...
... turning fome of the Canterbury tales into our language , as it is now refined ; for by this means both the poets being fet in the fame light , and dressed in the fame English habit , story to be compared with ftory , a certain judgment ...
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... subject . They , who think otherwife , would by the fame reafon prefer Lucan and Ovid to Homer and Virgil , and Martial to all four of them . As for the mon . turn turn of words , in which Ovid particularly excels all PREFACE . 25.
... subject . They , who think otherwife , would by the fame reafon prefer Lucan and Ovid to Homer and Virgil , and Martial to all four of them . As for the mon . turn turn of words , in which Ovid particularly excels all PREFACE . 25.
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Samuel Johnson. turn of words , in which Ovid particularly excels all poets ; they are fometimes a fault , and fometimes a beauty , as they are used properly or improperly ; but in ftrong paffions always to be hunned , becauie paffions ...
Samuel Johnson. turn of words , in which Ovid particularly excels all poets ; they are fometimes a fault , and fometimes a beauty , as they are used properly or improperly ; but in ftrong paffions always to be hunned , becauie paffions ...
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... ; but Ariftotle has left undecided the duration of the action ; which yet is eafily reduced into the com- pafs of a year , by a narration of what preceded the re- turn turn of Palamon to Athens . I had thought for 40 PREFACE .
... ; but Ariftotle has left undecided the duration of the action ; which yet is eafily reduced into the com- pafs of a year , by a narration of what preceded the re- turn turn of Palamon to Athens . I had thought for 40 PREFACE .
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