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We must consider in Pindar the great difference of time betwixt his age and ours , which changes , as in pictures , at least the colours of poetry ; the no less difference betwixt the religions B 2 of [ 3 ] PINDARIC OD E S, ...
We must consider in Pindar the great difference of time betwixt his age and ours , which changes , as in pictures , at least the colours of poetry ; the no less difference betwixt the religions B 2 of [ 3 ] PINDARIC OD E S, ...
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And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which fometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which fometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
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And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which sometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
And lastly ( which were enough alone for my purpose ) we must consider that our ears are strangers to the mufick of his numbers , which sometimes ( especially in songs and odes ) almost without any thing else , makes an excellent poet ...
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The Ode ( according to the constant cuítom of the Poet ) consists more in digressions , than in the main subject : and the Reader must not be choqued to hear him speak fo often of his own Mufe ; for that is a liberty which . this kind ...
The Ode ( according to the constant cuítom of the Poet ) consists more in digressions , than in the main subject : and the Reader must not be choqued to hear him speak fo often of his own Mufe ; for that is a liberty which . this kind ...
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Thi Olympic trophies fhew : Both their several parts must do In the noble chace of fame ; This without that is blind , that without this is laine . Nor is fair Virtue's picture feen aright But in Fortune's golden light .
Thi Olympic trophies fhew : Both their several parts must do In the noble chace of fame ; This without that is blind , that without this is laine . Nor is fair Virtue's picture feen aright But in Fortune's golden light .
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1 |
| Author | Abraham Cowley |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, C. Bathrust (Londres) |
| Publisher | H. Hughs, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 407 pages |
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