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Renew the truce , the folemn rites prepare , And to my fingle virtue trust the war . The Latians , unconcern'd , shall see the fight ; This arm , unaided , shall affert your right : Then , if my proftrate body press the plain , To him ...
Renew the truce , the folemn rites prepare , And to my fingle virtue trust the war . The Latians , unconcern'd , shall see the fight ; This arm , unaided , shall affert your right : Then , if my proftrate body press the plain , To him ...
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... happy enough to arrive at your verfification . And were he tranflated into numbers and English , he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expreffion . That which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Virgil which DEDICATION .
... happy enough to arrive at your verfification . And were he tranflated into numbers and English , he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expreffion . That which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Virgil which DEDICATION .
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which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Virgil , which distinguishes him from the rest of writers , is fo confpicuous in your verses , that it cafts a shadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be feen , or but obfcurely ...
which is the prime virtue and chief ornament of Virgil , which distinguishes him from the rest of writers , is fo confpicuous in your verses , that it cafts a shadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be feen , or but obfcurely ...
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For there is no uniformity in the defign of Spenfer he aims at the accomplishment of no one action : he raises up a hero for every one of his adventures ; and endows each of them with fome particular moral virtue , which renders them ...
For there is no uniformity in the defign of Spenfer he aims at the accomplishment of no one action : he raises up a hero for every one of his adventures ; and endows each of them with fome particular moral virtue , which renders them ...
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That humility and refignation are our prime virtues ; and that thefe include no action , but that of the foul whereas , on the contrary , an Heroic Poem requires to its neceffary defign , and ' as its last perfection , fome great action ...
That humility and refignation are our prime virtues ; and that thefe include no action , but that of the foul whereas , on the contrary , an Heroic Poem requires to its neceffary defign , and ' as its last perfection , fome great action ...
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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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