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Page 85
I question not but he could have raised it ; for the first epistle of the second book ,
which he writes to Augustus , ( a most instructive satire concerning poetry , ) is of
so much dignity in the words , and of so much elegancy in the numbers , that the
...
I question not but he could have raised it ; for the first epistle of the second book ,
which he writes to Augustus , ( a most instructive satire concerning poetry , ) is of
so much dignity in the words , and of so much elegancy in the numbers , that the
...
Page 86
Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical,
Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author John Dryden. style , nor his
numbers , nor his purity of words , nor his run of verse . Horace therefore copes
with him ...
Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical,
Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author John Dryden. style , nor his
numbers , nor his purity of words , nor his run of verse . Horace therefore copes
with him ...
Page 104
If Horace refused the pains of numbers , and the loftiness of figures , are they
bound to follow so ill a precedent : Let him walk a - foot , with his pad in his hand ,
for his own pleasure ; but let not them be accounted no poets , who chuse to
mount ...
If Horace refused the pains of numbers , and the loftiness of figures , are they
bound to follow so ill a precedent : Let him walk a - foot , with his pad in his hand ,
for his own pleasure ; but let not them be accounted no poets , who chuse to
mount ...
Page 220
Who counts geometry , and numbers toys , And with his foot the sacred dust
destroys .--- P . 216 . Arithmetic and geometry were taught on floors , which were
strewed with dust , or sand ; in which the numbers and diagrams were made and
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Who counts geometry , and numbers toys , And with his foot the sacred dust
destroys .--- P . 216 . Arithmetic and geometry were taught on floors , which were
strewed with dust , or sand ; in which the numbers and diagrams were made and
...
Page 408
In numbers like to thine , could I rehearse Thy lofty tragic scenes , thy laboured
verse , The world another Sophocles in thee , Another Homer should behold in
me . Amidst thy laurels let this ivy twine : Thine was my earliest muse ; my latest ...
In numbers like to thine , could I rehearse Thy lofty tragic scenes , thy laboured
verse , The world another Sophocles in thee , Another Homer should behold in
me . Amidst thy laurels let this ivy twine : Thine was my earliest muse ; my latest ...
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| Title | 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 13 The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, John Dryden |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Publisher | William Miller, 1808 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2007 |
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