The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, Volume 14William Miller, 1808 |
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... talent and political activity ; was active in forwarding the Restoration ; and enjoyed at the court of Charles II . several offices , but was now retired . He died in 1713 . fore he reached the promised Italy . But I consi-
... talent and political activity ; was active in forwarding the Restoration ; and enjoyed at the court of Charles II . several offices , but was now retired . He died in 1713 . fore he reached the promised Italy . But I consi-
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... Italy . But I consi- dered , that nothing which my meanness could pro- duce , was worthy of your patronage . At last this happy occasion offered , of presenting to you the best poem of the best poet . If I balked this op- portunity , I ...
... Italy . But I consi- dered , that nothing which my meanness could pro- duce , was worthy of your patronage . At last this happy occasion offered , of presenting to you the best poem of the best poet . If I balked this op- portunity , I ...
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... Italy , of a country life , and the like , which are not brought in by force , but naturally rise out of the principal argument and design of the poem . I know no one digression in the Georgics that may seem to con- tradict this ...
... Italy , of a country life , and the like , which are not brought in by force , but naturally rise out of the principal argument and design of the poem . I know no one digression in the Georgics that may seem to con- tradict this ...
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... Italy : after which , he gives some directions for dis- covering the nature of every soil , prescribes rules for dressing of vines , olives , & c . and concludes the Georgic with a panegyric on a country life . * THUS far of tillage ...
... Italy : after which , he gives some directions for dis- covering the nature of every soil , prescribes rules for dressing of vines , olives , & c . and concludes the Georgic with a panegyric on a country life . * THUS far of tillage ...
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... Italy . Nature has conspired with art to make the garden at Denham Court , of Sir William's own plantation , one of the most delicious spots of ground in England : it contains not above five acres ( just the com- pass of Alcinous's ...
... Italy . Nature has conspired with art to make the garden at Denham Court , of Sir William's own plantation , one of the most delicious spots of ground in England : it contains not above five acres ( just the com- pass of Alcinous's ...
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