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Page 103
... had rather written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonfon , who , by ftudying Horace , had been acquainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a ...
... had rather written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonfon , who , by ftudying Horace , had been acquainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge , and like an inventor of fome useful art , to make a ...
Page 105
... the most godlike commendation of a man , is only attributed to your perfon , and denied to your writings for they are every where fo full of candor , that , like Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their ...
... the most godlike commendation of a man , is only attributed to your perfon , and denied to your writings for they are every where fo full of candor , that , like Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their ...
Page 112
The fame prevalence of genius is in your Lordship : but the world cannot pardon your concealing it , on the fame confideration ; because we have neither a living Varius , nor a Horace , in whofe excellencies both of Poems , Odes , and ...
The fame prevalence of genius is in your Lordship : but the world cannot pardon your concealing it , on the fame confideration ; because we have neither a living Varius , nor a Horace , in whofe excellencies both of Poems , Odes , and ...
Page 113
... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the latter end of the commonwealth ; wherein we find Varro , Lucretius , and Catullus : and at the fame time lived Cicero , Saluft , and Cæfar .
... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the latter end of the commonwealth ; wherein we find Varro , Lucretius , and Catullus : and at the fame time lived Cicero , Saluft , and Cæfar .
Page 114
Thus I might fafely confine myfelf to my native country ; but , if I would only cross the feas , I might find in France a living Horace and a Juvenal , in the perfon of the admirable Boileau ; whofe numbers are .excellent , whofe ...
Thus I might fafely confine myfelf to my native country ; but , if I would only cross the feas , I might find in France a living Horace and a Juvenal , in the perfon of the admirable Boileau ; whofe numbers are .excellent , whofe ...
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 11 |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) |
| Publisher | J. Rivington, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 366 pages |
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