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Page 55
Two fnowy courfers Turnus ' chariot yoke , And in his hand two massy spears he shook : Then iffued from the camp , in arms divine , Æneas , author of the Roman line : And by his fide Afcanius took his place , The fecond hope of Rome's ...
Two fnowy courfers Turnus ' chariot yoke , And in his hand two massy spears he shook : Then iffued from the camp , in arms divine , Æneas , author of the Roman line : And by his fide Afcanius took his place , The fecond hope of Rome's ...
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... let Alba reign , And Rome's immortal majesty remain . Then thus the founder of mankind replies ( Unruffled was his front , ferene his eyes ) : Can Saturn's iffue , and heavens other heir , Such endless anger in her bofom bear ?
... let Alba reign , And Rome's immortal majesty remain . Then thus the founder of mankind replies ( Unruffled was his front , ferene his eyes ) : Can Saturn's iffue , and heavens other heir , Such endless anger in her bofom bear ?
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Scaliger the father will have it defcend from Greece to Rome ; and derives the word Satire from Satyrus , that mixt kind of animal , or , as the ancients thought him , rural god , made up betwixt a man and a goat ; with a human head ...
Scaliger the father will have it defcend from Greece to Rome ; and derives the word Satire from Satyrus , that mixt kind of animal , or , as the ancients thought him , rural god , made up betwixt a man and a goat ; with a human head ...
Page 140
... mifapply what Horace writ conrerning ancient Rome , to the ceremonies and manners of ancient Greece , I will not infift on this opinion , but rather judge in general , that fince all poetry had its original from religion , that of ...
... mifapply what Horace writ conrerning ancient Rome , to the ceremonies and manners of ancient Greece , I will not infift on this opinion , but rather judge in general , that fince all poetry had its original from religion , that of ...
Page 146
... and not tranfplanted from Athens to Rome . Yet , as I have faid , Scaliger the father , according to his cuftom ; that is , infolently enough , >> contradicts them both ; and gives no better reason , than the derivation of Satyrus ...
... and not tranfplanted from Athens to Rome . Yet , as I have faid , Scaliger the father , according to his cuftom ; that is , infolently enough , >> contradicts them both ; and gives no better reason , than the derivation of Satyrus ...
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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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