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The fearful matrons riafe a fcreaming cry ; Old feeble men with fainter groans reply ; A jarring found refults , and mingles in the fky , Like that of fwans remurmuring to the floods , Or birds of differing kinds in hollow woods .
The fearful matrons riafe a fcreaming cry ; Old feeble men with fainter groans reply ; A jarring found refults , and mingles in the fky , Like that of fwans remurmuring to the floods , Or birds of differing kinds in hollow woods .
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Titus VefpaLian was not more the delight of human - kind . The univerfal empire made him only more known , and more powerful , but could not make him more beloved . He had greater ability of doing good , but your inclination to it is ...
Titus VefpaLian was not more the delight of human - kind . The univerfal empire made him only more known , and more powerful , but could not make him more beloved . He had greater ability of doing good , but your inclination to it is ...
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A famous age in modern times , for learning in every kind , was that of Lorenzo de Medici , and his fon Leo X. wherein Painting was revived , and Poetry flourished , and the Greek language was restored . Examples in all these are ...
A famous age in modern times , for learning in every kind , was that of Lorenzo de Medici , and his fon Leo X. wherein Painting was revived , and Poetry flourished , and the Greek language was restored . Examples in all these are ...
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... against some of our modern critics , that this age and the laft , particularly in England , have excelled the ancients in both thofe kinds ; and , I would instance in Shakespeare of the former , of your Lordship in the latter fort .
... against some of our modern critics , that this age and the laft , particularly in England , have excelled the ancients in both thofe kinds ; and , I would instance in Shakespeare of the former , of your Lordship in the latter fort .
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The French have performed nothing in this kind , which is not as below those two Italians , and fubject to a thousand more reflections , without examining their St. Lewis , their Pucelle , or their Alarique : the English have only to ...
The French have performed nothing in this kind , which is not as below those two Italians , and fubject to a thousand more reflections , without examining their St. Lewis , their Pucelle , or their Alarique : the English have only to ...
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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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