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Page 140
... action of Paradise Lost from the beginning of Raphael's speech in this book , as he supposes the action of the Eneid to begin in the second book of that poem . could allege many reasons for my drawing the action of the Æneid rather from ...
... action of Paradise Lost from the beginning of Raphael's speech in this book , as he supposes the action of the Eneid to begin in the second book of that poem . could allege many reasons for my drawing the action of the Æneid rather from ...
Page 196
... action as that of dragging the governor of a town after his chariot . I know this is generally ascribed to his passion for Homer ; but I lately met with a passage in Plutarch , which , if I am not very much mistaken , still gives us a ...
... action as that of dragging the governor of a town after his chariot . I know this is generally ascribed to his passion for Homer ; but I lately met with a passage in Plutarch , which , if I am not very much mistaken , still gives us a ...
Page 536
... action in most men , 394 . Printing encouraged by the politest nations in Europe , 367 . Psalmist against hypocrisy , 399 . Punning , whose privilege , 396 . Pythagoras , his precepts about the choice of a course of life , 347 . Quakers ...
... action in most men , 394 . Printing encouraged by the politest nations in Europe , 367 . Psalmist against hypocrisy , 399 . Punning , whose privilege , 396 . Pythagoras , his precepts about the choice of a course of life , 347 . Quakers ...
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