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Page 85
... Virgil paid one honest line ; O let my country's friends illumine mine ! [ no sin ; -What are you thinking ? F. Faith the thought's I think your friends are out , and would be in . P. If merely to come in , sir , they go out , The way ...
... Virgil paid one honest line ; O let my country's friends illumine mine ! [ no sin ; -What are you thinking ? F. Faith the thought's I think your friends are out , and would be in . P. If merely to come in , sir , they go out , The way ...
Page 110
... Virgil of the most perfect epic performance ; and those parts of Homer which have been published already by Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad will appear in English with as little dis- advantage to that immortal poem ...
... Virgil of the most perfect epic performance ; and those parts of Homer which have been published already by Mr. Pope , give us reason to think that the Iliad will appear in English with as little dis- advantage to that immortal poem ...
Page 121
... Virgil than in any other work , except this of our author only 43 ? THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO MR . CIBBER , " says44 , Pope was so good a versifier [ once ] that his predecessor Mr. Dryden , and his contem- porary Mr. Prior excepted ...
... Virgil than in any other work , except this of our author only 43 ? THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO MR . CIBBER , " says44 , Pope was so good a versifier [ once ] that his predecessor Mr. Dryden , and his contem- porary Mr. Prior excepted ...
Page 134
... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore , at the like age , com- posing his Arthurs , declared the same to be the very acme and pitch of life for epic poesy ; though , since , he hath altered it to sixty , the year in ...
... Virgil finished his Georgics ; and Sir Richard Blackmore , at the like age , com- posing his Arthurs , declared the same to be the very acme and pitch of life for epic poesy ; though , since , he hath altered it to sixty , the year in ...
Page 137
... Virgil , and Milton , together with this our poem , as a complete tetralogy , in which the last worthily holdeth the place or station of the satiric piece ? Proceed we therefore in our subject . It hath been long , and alas for pity ...
... Virgil , and Milton , together with this our poem , as a complete tetralogy , in which the last worthily holdeth the place or station of the satiric piece ? Proceed we therefore in our subject . It hath been long , and alas for pity ...
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