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Bold anger in rough haughty words appears ; Sorrow is humble , and dissolves in tears .. Make not your Hecuba with fury rage , And shew a ranting grief upon the Scage . In sorrow you must softer methods keep , And , to excite our tears ...
Bold anger in rough haughty words appears ; Sorrow is humble , and dissolves in tears .. Make not your Hecuba with fury rage , And shew a ranting grief upon the Scage . In sorrow you must softer methods keep , And , to excite our tears ...
Page 178
For this the Tragic Muse first trod the Stage , Commanding tears to stream thro ' every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept , And focs to virtue wonder'd how they wept . Our Author shuns by vulgar springs to move , ' I he ...
For this the Tragic Muse first trod the Stage , Commanding tears to stream thro ' every age ; Tyrants no more their savage nature kept , And focs to virtue wonder'd how they wept . Our Author shuns by vulgar springs to move , ' I he ...
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Thus , while he fung , Ulyfes ' griefs renew , Tears bathe his cheeks , and tears the ground bedew : Conceal'd he griev'd : the king observ'd alone The filent tear , and heard the secret groan : Then to the bard aloud : O cease to sing ...
Thus , while he fung , Ulyfes ' griefs renew , Tears bathe his cheeks , and tears the ground bedew : Conceal'd he griev'd : the king observ'd alone The filent tear , and heard the secret groan : Then to the bard aloud : O cease to sing ...
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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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