The Art of Poetry on a New Plan, Volume 2Gregg, 1969 - Poetry |
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Page 73
... laft paffage it is plain that the ancients , very early , called in mufic to the aid of poetry , and that their odes were usually fung , and accompany'd with their lutes , harps , lyres , timbrels , and other inftruments : Nay , fo ...
... laft paffage it is plain that the ancients , very early , called in mufic to the aid of poetry , and that their odes were usually fung , and accompany'd with their lutes , harps , lyres , timbrels , and other inftruments : Nay , fo ...
Page 113
... laft oration : " The hawkers have not got them yet : " Your honour please to buy a fet ? " Suppofe me dead , and then fuppofe A club affembled at the Rofe ; Where from difcourfe of this and that , I grow the fubject of their chat . The ...
... laft oration : " The hawkers have not got them yet : " Your honour please to buy a fet ? " Suppofe me dead , and then fuppofe A club affembled at the Rofe ; Where from difcourfe of this and that , I grow the fubject of their chat . The ...
Page 334
... laft . He does not conclude , or part with Adam and Eve , till they are driven out of Paradise , and the whole action is completed ; whereas the Iliad ends with the death of Hector , and the Æneid with that of Turnus , and in my humble ...
... laft . He does not conclude , or part with Adam and Eve , till they are driven out of Paradise , and the whole action is completed ; whereas the Iliad ends with the death of Hector , and the Æneid with that of Turnus , and in my humble ...
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