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UCH time has been spent , and great pains taken , to ascertain the derivation of the word Satire , and to trace out the first rise of this kind of poem : all which is beside our purpose , and indeed not within the compass of our design ...
UCH time has been spent , and great pains taken , to ascertain the derivation of the word Satire , and to trace out the first rise of this kind of poem : all which is beside our purpose , and indeed not within the compass of our design ...
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No more the troops , ( our hoisted fails in view , Themselves abandon'd ) shall the fight pursue , Thy ships first Aying with despair shall fee , And owe destruction to a p : ince like thee . But Agamemnon's resolution seems to have ...
No more the troops , ( our hoisted fails in view , Themselves abandon'd ) shall the fight pursue , Thy ships first Aying with despair shall fee , And owe destruction to a p : ince like thee . But Agamemnon's resolution seems to have ...
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... where wandering he first finds a place , “ fince called the Limbo of Vanity : what persons and things fly up thither : thence comes to the gate " of heaven , described ascending by ftairs , and the 66 waters above the firmament that ...
... where wandering he first finds a place , “ fince called the Limbo of Vanity : what persons and things fly up thither : thence comes to the gate " of heaven , described ascending by ftairs , and the 66 waters above the firmament that ...
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| Title | The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ... Volume 2 of The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets; and of Translations from the Ancients, John Newbery |
| Author | John Newbery |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 27, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0576029947, 9780576029940 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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