The Works of the English Poets, Volume 12J. D. Cornish, 1779 - 390 pages |
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... grown extravagantly kind , With all her treasures did adorn your mind . The different powers were then united found , And you Wit's univerfal monarch crown'd . Your Your mighty fway your great defert fecures , And every VERSES TO.
... grown extravagantly kind , With all her treasures did adorn your mind . The different powers were then united found , And you Wit's univerfal monarch crown'd . Your Your mighty fway your great defert fecures , And every VERSES TO.
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... kind of pleasure to me , to please those whom I refpect . And I am not altogether out of hope , that these Pastorals of Virgil may give your lordship fome delight , though made English by one , who scarce remembers that paffion which ...
... kind of pleasure to me , to please those whom I refpect . And I am not altogether out of hope , that these Pastorals of Virgil may give your lordship fome delight , though made English by one , who scarce remembers that paffion which ...
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... kind of rufticity in all thofe pom- pous verfes ; fomewhat of a holiday fhepherd strutting in his country bufkins . The like may be observed , both in the Pollio , and the Silenus ; where the fimili- tudes are drawn from the woods and ...
... kind of rufticity in all thofe pom- pous verfes ; fomewhat of a holiday fhepherd strutting in his country bufkins . The like may be observed , both in the Pollio , and the Silenus ; where the fimili- tudes are drawn from the woods and ...
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... kind , not inferior to the two former . For the Shep- herd's Calendar of Spenfer is not to be matched in any modern language . Not even by Taffo's Amyntas , which infinitely tranfcends Guarini's Pastor Fido , as having more of nature in ...
... kind , not inferior to the two former . For the Shep- herd's Calendar of Spenfer is not to be matched in any modern language . Not even by Taffo's Amyntas , which infinitely tranfcends Guarini's Pastor Fido , as having more of nature in ...
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... kind ; I need neither praise nor incite your virtue . You are acquainted with the Roman history , and know without my information that patronage and clientship always defcended from the fathers to the fons , and that the fame plebeian ...
... kind ; I need neither praise nor incite your virtue . You are acquainted with the Roman history , and know without my information that patronage and clientship always defcended from the fathers to the fons , and that the fame plebeian ...
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Æneas Æneid Æneis againſt anſwer arms Auguftus becauſe beſt betwixt Cæfar Carthage cauſe Daphnis defcended defire Dido earth Ev'n eyes facred fafe faid fame fate father fear feas fecret fecure feem fenfe feven fhades fhall fhepherd fhew fhore fide fight fing fire firft firſt fkies flain flocks flood foes foil fome fong fpring fubject fuch fure fwain fweet Georgic goddeſs gods Grecian ground heaven hero himſelf honour houſe Ilioneus Jupiter juſt labour laft laſt leaſt lefs Lordſhip mafter moſt Mufe Muſe muſt myſelf night numbers o'er obferved Ovid plain pleaſe pleaſure poem poet praiſe prefent Priam promiſe purſue rage raiſe reft rifing Segrais ſhade ſhall ſhe ſheep ſhore ſhould ſkies ſky ſpace ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtood ſtorm ſtreams ſweet thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou tranflation Trojan Troy Turnus Tyrian uſe verfe verſe vines Virgil whofe winds woods youth