The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English poetry |
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... use- lefs in Venice from its fituation , there being canals in every street , " To ride as badly as a grandee of Venice , " is become a proverb all over Italy . 2 As Cato did of Afric fruits difplay Let us before our eyes their Indies ...
... use- lefs in Venice from its fituation , there being canals in every street , " To ride as badly as a grandee of Venice , " is become a proverb all over Italy . 2 As Cato did of Afric fruits difplay Let us before our eyes their Indies ...
Page 42
... both for the found and number , than any other verfe in use amongst us ; in which I am fure I have your appro- bation . The learned languages have certainly a great great advantage of us , in not being tied to 42 A LETTER to.
... both for the found and number , than any other verfe in use amongst us ; in which I am fure I have your appro- bation . The learned languages have certainly a great great advantage of us , in not being tied to 42 A LETTER to.
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... use among other nations ; with the Italian in every line , with the Spaniard promifcuously , with the French alternately ; as thofe who have read the Alarique , the Pucelle , or any of their later poems , will agree with me . And ...
... use among other nations ; with the Italian in every line , with the Spaniard promifcuously , with the French alternately ; as thofe who have read the Alarique , the Pucelle , or any of their later poems , will agree with me . And ...
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... use a school - diftinction ) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer , which , like a nimble fpaniel , beats over and ranges through the field of memory , ' till it fprings the quarry it hunted after : or , without ...
... use a school - diftinction ) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer , which , like a nimble fpaniel , beats over and ranges through the field of memory , ' till it fprings the quarry it hunted after : or , without ...
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... use of tropes , or in fine any thing that fhews remotenefs of thought or labour in the writer . On the other fide , Virgil fpeaks not fo often to us in the perfon of another , like Ovid , but in his own : he relates almost almost all ...
... use of tropes , or in fine any thing that fhews remotenefs of thought or labour in the writer . On the other fide , Virgil fpeaks not fo often to us in the perfon of another , like Ovid , but in his own : he relates almost almost all ...
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