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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... things which are within the compass of human understanding . Your conversation is as easy as it is instructive ; and I could never observe the least vanity , or the least assuming , in any thing you said , but a natural unaffected ...
... things which are within the compass of human understanding . Your conversation is as easy as it is instructive ; and I could never observe the least vanity , or the least assuming , in any thing you said , but a natural unaffected ...
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... the different ways Virgil has taken to express the same thing , and how much pleasanter every man- ner of expression is , than the plain and direct men- VOL . XIV . B tion of it would have been . It is in THE GEORGICS . 17.
... the different ways Virgil has taken to express the same thing , and how much pleasanter every man- ner of expression is , than the plain and direct men- VOL . XIV . B tion of it would have been . It is in THE GEORGICS . 17.
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... thing he describes may immediately present itself , and rise up to the reader's view . He ought , in particular , to be ... things from his words , than we could have done from the ob- jects themselves ; and find our imaginations more ...
... thing he describes may immediately present itself , and rise up to the reader's view . He ought , in particular , to be ... things from his words , than we could have done from the ob- jects themselves ; and find our imaginations more ...
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... thing venerable in the antiqueness of the work : but , if we would see the design enlarged , the fi- gures reformed , the colouring laid on , and the whole piece finished , we must expect it from a greater master's hand . Virgil has ...
... thing venerable in the antiqueness of the work : but , if we would see the design enlarged , the fi- gures reformed , the colouring laid on , and the whole piece finished , we must expect it from a greater master's hand . Virgil has ...
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... things premised , when now the nuptial time Approaches for the stately steed to climb , With food enable him to make his court ; Distend his chine , and pamper him for sport : Feed him with herbs , whatever thou canst find , Of generous ...
... things premised , when now the nuptial time Approaches for the stately steed to climb , With food enable him to make his court ; Distend his chine , and pamper him for sport : Feed him with herbs , whatever thou canst find , Of generous ...
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