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Page 67
... Hear then a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse , In no ignoble verse ; But such as thy own voice did practice here , When thy first fruits of poesy were giv'n , To make thyself a welcome inmate there ; While yet a young probationer , And ...
... Hear then a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse , In no ignoble verse ; But such as thy own voice did practice here , When thy first fruits of poesy were giv'n , To make thyself a welcome inmate there ; While yet a young probationer , And ...
Page 156
... hear me ; hear me , With strictest justice : For I beg no favour ; And if I have offended you , then kill me , But do not banish me . ANTONY . I must not hear you . I have a fool within me takes your part ; But honour stops my ears ...
... hear me ; hear me , With strictest justice : For I beg no favour ; And if I have offended you , then kill me , But do not banish me . ANTONY . I must not hear you . I have a fool within me takes your part ; But honour stops my ears ...
Page 350
... hear it related , our eyes , the strongest witnesses , are wanting , which might have un- deceived us ; and we are all willing to favour the sleight , when the poet does not too grossly impose on us . They therefore who imagine these ...
... hear it related , our eyes , the strongest witnesses , are wanting , which might have un- deceived us ; and we are all willing to favour the sleight , when the poet does not too grossly impose on us . They therefore who imagine these ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneid ALEXAS ancient Anne Killigrew ANTONY Aristotle audience bear beauty Ben Jonson betwixt blank verse Boccace Caesar Canterbury Tales CHARMION Chaucer Church CLEOPATRA comedy Crites dare death DOLABELLA Dryden English EPILOGUE Eugenius ev'n ev'ry eyes fame fate father fear Fletcher foes French give grace haste Heaven honour Horace humour IRAS Jebusites John Dryden Jonson judge kind king leave Lisideius live look lord lost lovers Mac Flecknoe mistress Muse nature never numbers o'er OCTAVIA Ovid pains passion peace persons plain play plot poem poesy poet poetry pow'r praise priests PROLOGUE queen reason rhyme Roman Rome ruin satire scene SERAPION Shakespeare sigh sight Silent Woman soul speak stage sweet thee things thou thought thro tion tragedies translated truth VENTIDIUS Virgil words writ write youth