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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Page 19
... sight of the country , though we are some- times entertained with a distant prospect of it . Of this nature are Virgil's descriptions of the original of agriculture , of the fruitfulness of Italy , of a country life , and the like ...
... sight of the country , though we are some- times entertained with a distant prospect of it . Of this nature are Virgil's descriptions of the original of agriculture , of the fruitfulness of Italy , of a country life , and the like ...
Page 20
... sight of what he describes . I shall now , after this short scheme of rules , con- sider the different success that Hesiod and Virgil have met with in this kind of poetry , which may give us some further notion of the excellence ofthe ...
... sight of what he describes . I shall now , after this short scheme of rules , con- sider the different success that Hesiod and Virgil have met with in this kind of poetry , which may give us some further notion of the excellence ofthe ...
Page 43
... sight . And oft , before tempestuous winds arise , The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies , And , shooting through the darkness . gild the night With sweeping glories , and long trails of light ; And chaff with eddy - winds is ...
... sight . And oft , before tempestuous winds arise , The seeming stars fall headlong from the skies , And , shooting through the darkness . gild the night With sweeping glories , and long trails of light ; And chaff with eddy - winds is ...
Page 51
... But steer my vessel with a steady hand , And coast along the shore in sight of land . Nor will I tire thy patience with a train Of preface , or what ancient poets feign . The trees , which of themselves advance in air , GEORGICS , Ir . 51.
... But steer my vessel with a steady hand , And coast along the shore in sight of land . Nor will I tire thy patience with a train Of preface , or what ancient poets feign . The trees , which of themselves advance in air , GEORGICS , Ir . 51.
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... sight , The colour of the soil , and black from white . But the cold ground is difficult to know ; Yet this the plants , that prosper there , will show- Black ivy , pitch - trees , and the baleful yew . These rules considered well ...
... sight , The colour of the soil , and black from white . But the cold ground is difficult to know ; Yet this the plants , that prosper there , will show- Black ivy , pitch - trees , and the baleful yew . These rules considered well ...
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