The Works of Virgil in English Verse, Том 1R.J. Dodsley, 1763 |
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... those thoughts and ideas that were ready found to their hands . The mind can at- tend but to one object at once , with any vi- gour and intenseness : and if it be big and dilated with the conception and creation of new images ,. has ...
... those thoughts and ideas that were ready found to their hands . The mind can at- tend but to one object at once , with any vi- gour and intenseness : and if it be big and dilated with the conception and creation of new images ,. has ...
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... those who cenfure Lavinia as a tame and infipid character , fhould con- fider the retired nature of female education among the ancients ; for if VIRGIL had painted this beautiful young princess any otherwise than full of modesty and ...
... those who cenfure Lavinia as a tame and infipid character , fhould con- fider the retired nature of female education among the ancients ; for if VIRGIL had painted this beautiful young princess any otherwise than full of modesty and ...
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... those of Homer . " His characters of valour are much alike ; έσ even that of Turnus feems no way pecu- " liar , but as it is in a different degree ; and .46 we fee nothing that differences the courage " of Mneftheus from that of ...
... those of Homer . " His characters of valour are much alike ; έσ even that of Turnus feems no way pecu- " liar , but as it is in a different degree ; and .46 we fee nothing that differences the courage " of Mneftheus from that of ...
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... those generous words of Mr. Pope on a fimilar occafion , " that nothing could " have made Mr. Dryden capable of fuch " mistakes , but extreme hafte in writing ; " which never ought to be imputed as a " fault to him , but to those who ...
... those generous words of Mr. Pope on a fimilar occafion , " that nothing could " have made Mr. Dryden capable of fuch " mistakes , but extreme hafte in writing ; " which never ought to be imputed as a " fault to him , but to those who ...
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... Those too whose mothers by the queen were led , When fir'd by Bacchus , to the woods fhe fled , ( Such was her int'reft in the realm ) declare For open arms , and breathe revenge and war . Pitt , 735 . 4. Cybele in another place is ...
... Those too whose mothers by the queen were led , When fir'd by Bacchus , to the woods fhe fled , ( Such was her int'reft in the realm ) declare For open arms , and breathe revenge and war . Pitt , 735 . 4. Cybele in another place is ...
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Страница 5 - A work t' outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw : But when t' examine every part he came, —Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
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