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... ought themselves to be exposed : as Perfius has given us a fair example in his first fatyr : which is levelled particularly at them and none is fo fit to correct their faults , as he who is not only clear from any in his own ...
... ought themselves to be exposed : as Perfius has given us a fair example in his first fatyr : which is levelled particularly at them and none is fo fit to correct their faults , as he who is not only clear from any in his own ...
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The fatires of Juvenal and Perfius appearing in this new English drefs , cannot so properly be infcribed to any man as to your Lordfhip , who are the first of the age in that way of writing . Your Lordship , amongst many other favours ...
The fatires of Juvenal and Perfius appearing in this new English drefs , cannot so properly be infcribed to any man as to your Lordfhip , who are the first of the age in that way of writing . Your Lordship , amongst many other favours ...
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... the nature of that Poem , with its feveral qualifications and virtues , together with the feveral forts of it . To compare the excellencies of Horace , Perfius , and Juvenal , and fhew the particular manners of their fatires .
... the nature of that Poem , with its feveral qualifications and virtues , together with the feveral forts of it . To compare the excellencies of Horace , Perfius , and Juvenal , and fhew the particular manners of their fatires .
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But the Romans not ufing any of these parodies in their fatires ; fometimes , indeed , repeating verfes of other men , as Perfius cites fome of Nero's ; but not turning them into another meaning , the Silli cannot be supposed to be ...
But the Romans not ufing any of these parodies in their fatires ; fometimes , indeed , repeating verfes of other men , as Perfius cites fome of Nero's ; but not turning them into another meaning , the Silli cannot be supposed to be ...
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His verfes were stuffed with fragments of it , even to a fault : and he himfelf believed , according to the Pythagorean opinion , that the foul of Homer was transfufed into him which Perfius obferves , in his fixth satire : " poftquam ...
His verfes were stuffed with fragments of it , even to a fault : and he himfelf believed , according to the Pythagorean opinion , that the foul of Homer was transfufed into him which Perfius obferves , in his fixth satire : " poftquam ...
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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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