The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1Cadell and Company, 1834 - Chivalry |
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... Virgil - Ode to St Cecilia - Dispute with Milbourne - with Black- -Fables - The Author's Death and Funeral- His private Character - Notices of his Family , ....... 313 SECT . VIII . The State of Dryden's Reputation at his Death , and ...
... Virgil - Ode to St Cecilia - Dispute with Milbourne - with Black- -Fables - The Author's Death and Funeral- His private Character - Notices of his Family , ....... 313 SECT . VIII . The State of Dryden's Reputation at his Death , and ...
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... Virgil . That his family were puritans may readily be admitted ; but that they were anabaptists , although confidently asserted by some of our author's political or poetical antago- nists , appears altogether improbable . Notwith ...
... Virgil . That his family were puritans may readily be admitted ; but that they were anabaptists , although confidently asserted by some of our author's political or poetical antago- nists , appears altogether improbable . Notwith ...
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... Virgil ; and as no unsuccessful effort at producing those well- wrought images and descriptions , which create admiration , the proper object of heroic poetry . The " Annus Mirabilis " may indeed be regarded as one of Dryden's most ...
... Virgil ; and as no unsuccessful effort at producing those well- wrought images and descriptions , which create admiration , the proper object of heroic poetry . The " Annus Mirabilis " may indeed be regarded as one of Dryden's most ...
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... Virgil , in preference to Ovid , to be his model in the " Annus Mirabilis , " it sufficiently implies , that the main defect of the poetry of the last age had been discovered , and was in the way of being amended by gradual , and almost ...
... Virgil , in preference to Ovid , to be his model in the " Annus Mirabilis , " it sufficiently implies , that the main defect of the poetry of the last age had been discovered , and was in the way of being amended by gradual , and almost ...
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... Virgil before it left the press , in a passage which is also curious , from the author ranking in the same line " the two elaborate poems of Blackmore and Milton . " In testimony of total amnesty , the " De- 1 In a letter from Dryden to ...
... Virgil before it left the press , in a passage which is also curious , from the author ranking in the same line " the two elaborate poems of Blackmore and Milton . " In testimony of total amnesty , the " De- 1 In a letter from Dryden to ...
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