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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... poem of the best poet . If I balked this op- portunity , I was in despair of finding such another ; and , if I took it , I was still uncertain whether you would vouchsafe to accept it from my hands . It was a bold venture which I made ...
... poem of the best poet . If I balked this op- portunity , I was in despair of finding such another ; and , if I took it , I was still uncertain whether you would vouchsafe to accept it from my hands . It was a bold venture which I made ...
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... poets , ) that , though they wrote before with a certain heat of genius which inspired them , yet that heat was not perfectly digested . There is required a continuance of warmth , to ripen the best and noblest fruits . Thus Horace , in ...
... poets , ) that , though they wrote before with a certain heat of genius which inspired them , yet that heat was not perfectly digested . There is required a continuance of warmth , to ripen the best and noblest fruits . Thus Horace , in ...
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... poets have a right of recording it to all posterity : Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori . Epaminondas , Lucullus , and the two first Cæsars , were not esteemed the worse commanders , for ha- ving made philosophy and the liberal arts ...
... poets have a right of recording it to all posterity : Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori . Epaminondas , Lucullus , and the two first Cæsars , were not esteemed the worse commanders , for ha- ving made philosophy and the liberal arts ...
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... poem anywhere appear so well as in this language , which has a natural greatness in it , and can be of- ten rendered ... poems lies in the same place , the speakers in them are of a quite different character , since the precepts of ...
... poem anywhere appear so well as in this language , which has a natural greatness in it , and can be of- ten rendered ... poems lies in the same place , the speakers in them are of a quite different character , since the precepts of ...
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... poets , and is particularly practi- sed by Virgil , who loves to suggest a truth indirect- ly , and , without giving us a ... poem with too much business , but sometimes to relieve the subject , with a moral reflection , or let it rest a ...
... poets , and is particularly practi- sed by Virgil , who loves to suggest a truth indirect- ly , and , without giving us a ... poem with too much business , but sometimes to relieve the subject , with a moral reflection , or let it rest a ...
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