The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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... Ancients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Although difgraceful ' tis their cloaths to wear , 5 ΙΟ 15 20 } 25 Some Some in a polish'd style write Pastoral , Arcadia ...
... Ancients shewn , Fancy improves , and judgment makes your own : For great men's fashions to be follow'd are , Although difgraceful ' tis their cloaths to wear , 5 ΙΟ 15 20 } 25 Some Some in a polish'd style write Pastoral , Arcadia ...
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... Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid ) Go to the Good and Just , an awful train , Thy foul's ...
... Ancient court thee to his shrine , Though every Laurel through the dome be thine , ( From the proud Epic , down to those that shade The gentler brow of the soft Lesbian maid ) Go to the Good and Just , an awful train , Thy foul's ...
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... Ancients ( to fay the least of them ) had as much genius as we : and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They conftantly applied them- felves not only to that art , but to that ...
... Ancients ( to fay the least of them ) had as much genius as we : and that to take more pains , and employ more time , cannot fail to produce more complete pieces . They conftantly applied them- felves not only to that art , but to that ...
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... Ancients ; and it will be found true , that , in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by thofe who have been moft indebted to them . For , to fay truth , what- ever is very good fenfe , must have ...
... Ancients ; and it will be found true , that , in every age , the highest character for sense and learning has been obtained by thofe who have been moft indebted to them . For , to fay truth , what- ever is very good fenfe , must have ...
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... Ancients . But what he has mixed of his << own with theirs is no way inferior to what he has " taken from them . It is not flattery at all to fay , that Virgil had written nothing fo good at his Age . His " Preface is very judicious and ...
... Ancients . But what he has mixed of his << own with theirs is no way inferior to what he has " taken from them . It is not flattery at all to fay , that Virgil had written nothing fo good at his Age . His " Preface is very judicious and ...
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