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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... appear before you : a time as tedi- ous as Æneas passed in his wandering voyage , be- * Philip Stanhope , second Earl of Chesterfield , born in 1634 . He was a man of considerable talent and political activity ; was active in forwarding ...
... appear before you : a time as tedi- ous as Æneas passed in his wandering voyage , be- * Philip Stanhope , second Earl of Chesterfield , born in 1634 . He was a man of considerable talent and political activity ; was active in forwarding ...
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... appear before King Charles the Second , though he much desired it : at length he took the confidence to attend a fair lady to the court , and told his majesty , that , under her protec- tion , he had presumed to wait on him : With the ...
... appear before King Charles the Second , though he much desired it : at length he took the confidence to attend a fair lady to the court , and told his majesty , that , under her protec- tion , he had presumed to wait on him : With the ...
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... appear so well as in this language , which has a natural greatness in it , and can be of- ten rendered more deep and sonorous by the nunciation of the Ionians . But , in the middle style , where the writers in both tongues are on a ...
... appear so well as in this language , which has a natural greatness in it , and can be of- ten rendered more deep and sonorous by the nunciation of the Ionians . But , in the middle style , where the writers in both tongues are on a ...
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... appear in the natural simplicity and naked- ness of its subject , but in the pleasantest dress that poetry can bestow on it . Thus Virgil , to deviate from the common form of words , would not make use of tempore , but sidere , in his ...
... appear in the natural simplicity and naked- ness of its subject , but in the pleasantest dress that poetry can bestow on it . Thus Virgil , to deviate from the common form of words , would not make use of tempore , but sidere , in his ...
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... appears so very cold and bleak to the eye , that a man can scarce look on it without shivering . The murrain , at the end , has all the expressiveness that words can give . It was here that the poet strained hard to out - do Lucretius ...
... appears so very cold and bleak to the eye , that a man can scarce look on it without shivering . The murrain , at the end , has all the expressiveness that words can give . It was here that the poet strained hard to out - do Lucretius ...
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