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WHAT Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age , in plenty and at eafe , I have undertaken to tanflate in my declining years : ftruggling with wants , oppreffed with fickness , curbed in my genius , liable to be mifconftrued in all I write ...
WHAT Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age , in plenty and at eafe , I have undertaken to tanflate in my declining years : ftruggling with wants , oppreffed with fickness , curbed in my genius , liable to be mifconftrued in all I write ...
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When I was myself in the rudiments of my Poetry , without name or reputation in the world , having rather the ambition of a writer , than the skill ; when I was drawing the out - lines of an art , without any living mafter to inftruct ...
When I was myself in the rudiments of my Poetry , without name or reputation in the world , having rather the ambition of a writer , than the skill ; when I was drawing the out - lines of an art , without any living mafter to inftruct ...
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There is not an English writer this day living , who is not perfectly convinced , that your Lordship excels all others , in all the feveral parts of Poetry which you have undertaken ...
There is not an English writer this day living , who is not perfectly convinced , that your Lordship excels all others , in all the feveral parts of Poetry which you have undertaken ...
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It is a general complaint against your Lordship , and I must have leave to upbraid you with it , that , because you need not write , you will not . Mankind that wishes you fo well , in all things that relate to your profperity ...
It is a general complaint against your Lordship , and I must have leave to upbraid you with it , that , because you need not write , you will not . Mankind that wishes you fo well , in all things that relate to your profperity ...
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that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift intirely without it ; any more ( I may almost say ) than the ... that you might be induced fometimes to write ; and in relation to a multitude of fcribblers , who daily pefter the ...
that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift intirely without it ; any more ( I may almost say ) than the ... that you might be induced fometimes to write ; and in relation to a multitude of fcribblers , who daily pefter 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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