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... Whose pride this inaufpicious war began : For whofe ambition ( let me dare to fay , Fear fet apart , though death is in my way ) The plains of Latium run with blood around ; So many valiant heroes bite the ground : Dejected grief in ...
... Whose pride this inaufpicious war began : For whofe ambition ( let me dare to fay , Fear fet apart , though death is in my way ) The plains of Latium run with blood around ; So many valiant heroes bite the ground : Dejected grief in ...
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1065 Fame fays that Turnus , when his steeds he join'd , จ Hurrying to war , diforder'd in his mind , Snatch'd the firft weapon which his hafte could find . ' Twas not the fated fword his father bore ; But that his charioteer Metifcus ...
1065 Fame fays that Turnus , when his steeds he join'd , จ Hurrying to war , diforder'd in his mind , Snatch'd the firft weapon which his hafte could find . ' Twas not the fated fword his father bore ; But that his charioteer Metifcus ...
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Somewhat ( give me leave to fay ) I have added to both of them , in the choice of words , and harmony of numbers , which were wanting , especially the laft , in all our , poets , even in those who , being endued with genius , yet have ...
Somewhat ( give me leave to fay ) I have added to both of them , in the choice of words , and harmony of numbers , which were wanting , especially the laft , in all our , poets , even in those who , being endued with genius , yet have ...
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... and needs not the reformation which Defcartes used to his : for we doubt not , neither can we properly fay , we think we admire and love you , above all other men : there is a certainty in the propofition , and we know it .
... and needs not the reformation which Defcartes used to his : for we doubt not , neither can we properly fay , we think we admire and love you , above all other men : there is a certainty in the propofition , and we know it .
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... 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 monopoly of his learning : when thus , as I may fay , before the rufe of the ...
... 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 monopoly of his learning : when thus , as I may fay , before the rufe of the ...
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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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