The Works of John Dryden, in Verse and Prose: With a Life, 2. köideHarper, 1847 |
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... poet . If I balked this opportunity , I was in despair of finding such another ; and , if I took it , I was still ... poets , ) that , though they wrote before with a certain heat of genius which inspired them , yet that heat was not ...
... poet . If I balked this opportunity , I was in despair of finding such another ; and , if I took it , I was still ... poets , ) that , though they wrote before with a certain heat of genius which inspired them , yet that heat was not ...
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... poet . No rules , therefore , that re- late to pastoral , can any way affect the Geor- gics , which fall under that class of poetry which consists in giving plain and direct instructions to the reader ; whether they be inoral duties ...
... poet . No rules , therefore , that re- late to pastoral , can any way affect the Geor- gics , which fall under that class of poetry which consists in giving plain and direct instructions to the reader ; whether they be inoral duties ...
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... poetry . Now , since this science of husbandry is of a very large extent , the poet shows his skill in singling out such precepts to proceed on , as are useful , and at the same time most capable of ornament . Virgil was so well ...
... poetry . Now , since this science of husbandry is of a very large extent , the poet shows his skill in singling out such precepts to proceed on , as are useful , and at the same time most capable of ornament . Virgil was so well ...
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... poetry , which may give us some farther notion of the excellence of the Georgics . To begin with Hesiod : -If we may guess at his character from his writings , he had much more of the hus- bandman than the poet in his temper : he was ...
... poetry , which may give us some farther notion of the excellence of the Georgics . To begin with Hesiod : -If we may guess at his character from his writings , he had much more of the hus- bandman than the poet in his temper : he was ...
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... poet , with a great beauty , ap- plies oblivion , ignorance , wonder , desire , and the like , to his trees . The last Georgic has , in- deed , as many metaphors , but not so daring as this ; for human thoughts and passions may be more ...
... poet , with a great beauty , ap- plies oblivion , ignorance , wonder , desire , and the like , to his trees . The last Georgic has , in- deed , as many metaphors , but not so daring as this ; for human thoughts and passions may be more ...
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