The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory: Under the Head of Poetry is Considered the Alliance and Nature of the Epic and Dramatic Poem, as it Exists in the Iliad, Æneid, and Paradise Lost |
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OCLC: 5861642
Related Subjects: Music. | Poetry -- Early works to 1800. | Oratory.
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Page 337 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
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| Title | The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory: Under the Head of Poetry is Considered the Alliance and Nature of the Epic and Dramatic Poem, as it Exists in the Iliad, Æneid, and Paradise Lost |
| Author | Anselm Bayly |
| Publisher | J. Stockdale, 1789 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 23, 2006 |
| Length | 384 pages |
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