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But to fire youth with the love of virtue , to infuse into them noble sentiments , and lead them on in the road to honour and to happiness , proper examples fhould not only be set before them , but these examples be enforced by proper ...
But to fire youth with the love of virtue , to infuse into them noble sentiments , and lead them on in the road to honour and to happiness , proper examples fhould not only be set before them , but these examples be enforced by proper ...
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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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Firm to the malt with chains thyself be bound , Nor trust thy virtue to th ' enchanting found . If , mad with transport , freedom thou demand , Be every fetter ftrain'd , and added band to band . And it is to be observ'd , that the song ...
Firm to the malt with chains thyself be bound , Nor trust thy virtue to th ' enchanting found . If , mad with transport , freedom thou demand , Be every fetter ftrain'd , and added band to band . And it is to be observ'd , that the song ...
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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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