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Now learn from me , thy near approaching grief , Nor think my wishes want to thy relief . While fortune favour'd , nor heaven's king deny'd , To lend my fuccour to the Latian fide , I fav'd thy brother , and the finking state ; 220 225 ...
Now learn from me , thy near approaching grief , Nor think my wishes want to thy relief . While fortune favour'd , nor heaven's king deny'd , To lend my fuccour to the Latian fide , I fav'd thy brother , and the finking state ; 220 225 ...
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Then , with a clofe embrace , he strain'd his fon ; And , kiffing through his helmet , thus begun : My fon , from my example learn the war , In camps to fuffer , and in fields to dare : But happier chance than mine attend thy care !
Then , with a clofe embrace , he strain'd his fon ; And , kiffing through his helmet , thus begun : My fon , from my example learn the war , In camps to fuffer , and in fields to dare : But happier chance than mine attend thy care !
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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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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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... of learning and merit : a praise so just , that even we , who are his enemies , cannot refuse it to him . Now if it be permitted me to go back again to the confideration of Epique Poetry , I have confessed , that no man hitherto has ...
... of learning and merit : a praise so just , that even we , who are his enemies , cannot refuse it to him . Now if it be permitted me to go back again to the confideration of Epique Poetry , I have confessed , that no man hitherto has ...
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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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