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Now let me fpeak , and you with patience hear , Things which perhaps may grate a lover's ear : land : 30 35 40 ' But But found advice , proceeding from a heart Sincerely yours ENEIS . Book XII . 47.
Now let me fpeak , and you with patience hear , Things which perhaps may grate a lover's ear : land : 30 35 40 ' But But found advice , proceeding from a heart Sincerely yours ENEIS . Book XII . 47.
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Now , all things to their utmost issue tend ; Push'd by the Fates to their appointed end : While leave was giv'n thee , and a lawful hour For vengeance , wrath , and unrefifted power : Tofs'd on the feas thou could'st thy foes distress ...
Now , all things to their utmost issue tend ; Push'd by the Fates to their appointed end : While leave was giv'n thee , and a lawful hour For vengeance , wrath , and unrefifted power : Tofs'd on the feas thou could'st thy foes distress ...
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... to look with pleasure on those things , which are somewhat congenial , and of a remote kin' dred to your own conceptions and to forgive.the many failings of thofe , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to those heights that ...
... to look with pleasure on those things , which are somewhat congenial , and of a remote kin' dred to your own conceptions and to forgive.the many failings of thofe , who , with their wretched art , cannot arrive to those heights that ...
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I will not attempt , in this place , to fay any thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that ...
I will not attempt , in this place , to fay any thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that ...
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... infinitely below his Pindariques , and his latter compofitions , which are undoubtedly the best of his poems , and the most correct . For my own part , I must avow it freely to the world , that I never attempted any thing in fatyr ...
... infinitely below his Pindariques , and his latter compofitions , which are undoubtedly the best of his poems , and the most correct . For my own part , I must avow it freely to the world , that I never attempted any thing in 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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