The Works of John Dryden: Poetical worksW. Paterson, 1889 |
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... mind may still retain a decent vigour ; and the gleanings of that Ephraim , in comparison with others , will surpass the vintage of Abiezer . I have called this somewhere , by a bold metaphor , a green old age ; but Virgil has given me ...
... mind may still retain a decent vigour ; and the gleanings of that Ephraim , in comparison with others , will surpass the vintage of Abiezer . I have called this somewhere , by a bold metaphor , a green old age ; but Virgil has given me ...
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... nothing which can discompose your mind . A good con- science is a port which is land - locked on every side , and where no winds can possibly invade , no tempests can arise . There a man may stand upon OF THE GEORGICS .
... nothing which can discompose your mind . A good con- science is a port which is land - locked on every side , and where no winds can possibly invade , no tempests can arise . There a man may stand upon OF THE GEORGICS .
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... minds a pleasing variety of scenes and landscapes , whilst it teaches us , and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description . A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress , and set ...
... minds a pleasing variety of scenes and landscapes , whilst it teaches us , and makes the driest of its precepts look like a description . A Georgic therefore is some part of the science of husbandry put into a pleasing dress , and set ...
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... mind of man ; and to choose the pleasantest of these ways is that which chiefly distinguishes poetry from prose , and makes Virgil's rules of husbandry pleasanter to read than Varro's . Where the prose - writer tells us plainly what ...
... mind of man ; and to choose the pleasantest of these ways is that which chiefly distinguishes poetry from prose , and makes Virgil's rules of husbandry pleasanter to read than Varro's . Where the prose - writer tells us plainly what ...
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... mind , which is always delighted with its own discoveries , only takes the hint from the poet , and seems to work out the rest by the strength of her own faculties . But , since the inculcating precept upon precept will at length prove ...
... mind , which is always delighted with its own discoveries , only takes the hint from the poet , and seems to work out the rest by the strength of her own faculties . But , since the inculcating precept upon precept will at length prove ...
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