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Page 104
If there have been , or are any , who go farther in their felf - conceit , they must be very fingular in their opinion they must . * be like the Officer " Officer in a play , who was called Captain , 104 DEDICATION .
If there have been , or are any , who go farther in their felf - conceit , they must be very fingular in their opinion they must . * be like the Officer " Officer in a play , who was called Captain , 104 DEDICATION .
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Officer in a play , who was called Captain , Lieutenant , and Company . The world will eafily conclude , whether fuch unattended generals can ever be capable of making a revolution in Parnassus . I will not attempt , in this place ...
Officer in a play , who was called Captain , Lieutenant , and Company . The world will eafily conclude , whether fuch unattended generals can ever be capable of making a revolution in Parnassus . I will not attempt , in this place ...
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As for Mr. Milton , whom we all admire with fo much justice , his fubject is not that of an Heroic Poem , properly fo called . His design is the lofing of our happiness : his event is not profperous , like that of all other Epic works ...
As for Mr. Milton , whom we all admire with fo much justice , his fubject is not that of an Heroic Poem , properly fo called . His design is the lofing of our happiness : his event is not profperous , like that of all other Epic works ...
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One angel , as we may fuppofe the prince of Perfia , as he is called , judging that it would be more for God's honour , and the benefit of his people , that the Median and Perfian monarchy , when delivered from the Babylonish captivity ...
One angel , as we may fuppofe the prince of Perfia , as he is called , judging that it would be more for God's honour , and the benefit of his people , that the Median and Perfian monarchy , when delivered from the Babylonish captivity ...
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... muft properly be called fatyrical , and not fatyr . And thus far it is allowed that the Grecians had fuch poems ; but that they were wholly different in fpecies from that to which the Romans gave the name of fatyr .
... muft properly be called fatyrical , and not fatyr . And thus far it is allowed that the Grecians had fuch poems ; but that they were wholly different in fpecies from that to which the Romans gave the name of fatyr .
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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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