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... Horace , had been acquainted with the rules , yet seemed to envy to pos- terity that knowledge , and , like an inventor of some useful art , to make a monopoly of his learning ; when thus , as I may say , before the use of the load ...
... Horace , had been acquainted with the rules , yet seemed to envy to pos- terity that knowledge , and , like an inventor of some useful art , to make a monopoly of his learning ; when thus , as I may say , before the use of the load ...
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... Horace , you only expose the follies of men , without arraign- ing their vices ; and in this excel him , that you ... Horace's 10th Satire , Book I. The satires of Lord Dorset seem to have consisted in short lam- poons , if we may ...
... Horace , you only expose the follies of men , without arraign- ing their vices ; and in this excel him , that you ... Horace's 10th Satire , Book I. The satires of Lord Dorset seem to have consisted in short lam- poons , if we may ...
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... Horace , in whose excel- lencies , both of poems , odes , and satires , you had equalled them , if our language had not yielded to the Roman majesty , and length of time had not add- ed a reverence to the works of Horace . For good ...
... Horace , in whose excel- lencies , both of poems , odes , and satires , you had equalled them , if our language had not yielded to the Roman majesty , and length of time had not add- ed a reverence to the works of Horace . For good ...
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... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the latter end of the coinmonwealth , wherein we find Varo , Lucretius , and Catullus ; and at the same time lived Cicero , and Sallust , and Cæsar . A ...
... Horace , Varius , Ovid , and many others ; especially if we take into that century the latter end of the coinmonwealth , wherein we find Varo , Lucretius , and Catullus ; and at the same time lived Cicero , and Sallust , and Cæsar . A ...
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... Horace and a Juvenal , in the person of the admirable Boileau ; whose numbers are excellent , whose expressions are noble , whose thoughts are just , whose language is pure , whose satire is pointed , and whose sense is close ; what he ...
... Horace and a Juvenal , in the person of the admirable Boileau ; whose numbers are excellent , whose expressions are noble , whose thoughts are just , whose language is pure , whose satire is pointed , and whose sense is close ; what he ...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volym 13 John Dryden,Walter Scott Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1821 |
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Sida 26 - Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
Sida 178 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Sida 27 - Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. 21 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Sida 26 - And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
Sida 26 - His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Sida 399 - He sung the secret seeds of Nature's frame; How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void, and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball.
Sida 102 - Quidquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.
Sida 95 - ... railed, I might have suffered for it justly ; but I managed my own work more happily, perhaps more dexterously. I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of blindsides, and little extravagancies ; to which, the wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious.
Sida 17 - The English have only to boast of Spenser and Milton, who neither of them wanted either genius or learning to have been perfect poets; and yet both of them are liable to many censures.
Sida 386 - The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, Renews its finished course : Saturnian times Roll round again ; and mighty years, begun From their first orb, in radiant circles run. The base degenerate iron offspring ends : A golden progeny from heaven descends.