The Works of the English Poets: Dryden's virgilH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Nor could he war with bodies void of breath . 155 A king , they hop'd , would hear a king's request . Whofe fon he once was call'd , and once his guest . Their fuit , which was too just to be deny'd Their . 65 DRYDEN'S VIRGIE ..
... Nor could he war with bodies void of breath . 155 A king , they hop'd , would hear a king's request . Whofe fon he once was call'd , and once his guest . Their fuit , which was too just to be deny'd Their . 65 DRYDEN'S VIRGIE ..
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... manly force , and with undaunted hearts : With our united strengh the war we wag'd ; With equal numbers , equal arms , engag'd : 455 460 465 470 475 480 VOL . VII . C You You fee th ' event - Now hear what I NEIS . Book XI.
... manly force , and with undaunted hearts : With our united strengh the war we wag'd ; With equal numbers , equal arms , engag'd : 455 460 465 470 475 480 VOL . VII . C You You fee th ' event - Now hear what I NEIS . Book XI.
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Samuel Johnson. You fee th ' event - Now hear what I propose , To fave our friends , and fatisfy our foes : A tract of land the Latins have poffefs'd Along the Tiber , stretching to the West , Which now Rutulians and Auruncans till : And ...
Samuel Johnson. You fee th ' event - Now hear what I propose , To fave our friends , and fatisfy our foes : A tract of land the Latins have poffefs'd Along the Tiber , stretching to the West , Which now Rutulians and Auruncans till : And ...
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... hear , and lend thy Latins aid : Break fhort the pirate's lance ; pronounce his fate , And lay the Phrygian low before the gate . 770 Now Turnus arms for fight : his back and breast , Well - temper'd fteel and fcaly brass invest : The ...
... hear , and lend thy Latins aid : Break fhort the pirate's lance ; pronounce his fate , And lay the Phrygian low before the gate . 770 Now Turnus arms for fight : his back and breast , Well - temper'd fteel and fcaly brass invest : The ...
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... hears th ' approaching horfes proudly neigh . Soon had their hofts in bloody battle join'd ; But weftward to the fea the fun declin'd . Intrench'd before the town , both armies lie : While night , with fable wings , involves the Iky ...
... hears th ' approaching horfes proudly neigh . Soon had their hofts in bloody battle join'd ; But weftward to the fea the fun declin'd . Intrench'd before the town , both armies lie : While night , with fable wings , involves the Iky ...
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Seite 213 - I consulted a greater genius (without offence to the manes of that noble author) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours every where to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity, lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms, and ancient words...
Seite 284 - And make the neighbouring monarchs fear their fate. He laughs at all the vulgar cares and fears ; At their vain triumphs, and their vainer tears: An equal temper in his mind he found, When fortune flattered him, and when she frowned.
Seite 194 - This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice ; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice.
Seite 34 - And when, too closely press'd, she quits the ground, From her bent bow she sends a backward wound. Her maids, in martial pomp, on either side...
Seite 128 - I had intended to have put in practice, (though far unable for the attempt of such a poem,) and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it...
Seite 270 - The critic-dame, who at her table sits, Homer and Virgil quotes, and weighs their wits; And pities Dido's agonizing fits. She has so far th...
Seite 346 - Tis not, indeed, my talent to 'engage In lofty trifles, or to swell my page With wind and noise...
Seite 105 - Donne alone, of all our countrymen, had your talent ; but was not happy enough to arrive at your versification ; and were he translated into numbers, and English, he would yet be wanting in the dignity of expression.
Seite 193 - How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!
Seite 281 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.