The Preface to the FablesUniversity Press, 1912 - 36 sivua |
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... Things , the Causes , the Beginning , and Ending , of the Trojan War : Here I ought in reason to have stopp'd ; but the Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses lying next in my way , I could not balk ' em . When I had compass'd them , I was so ...
... Things , the Causes , the Beginning , and Ending , of the Trojan War : Here I ought in reason to have stopp'd ; but the Speeches of Ajax and Ulysses lying next in my way , I could not balk ' em . When I had compass'd them , I was so ...
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... Things resembled him , and that with no disadvantage on the Side of the Modern Author , as I shall endeavour to prove when I compare them : And as I am , and always have been studious to pro- mote the Honour of my Native Country , so I ...
... Things resembled him , and that with no disadvantage on the Side of the Modern Author , as I shall endeavour to prove when I compare them : And as I am , and always have been studious to pro- mote the Honour of my Native Country , so I ...
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... Things , had this in common , that they refin'd their Mother- Tongues ; but with this difference , that Dante had 1 begun to file their Language , at least in Verse , before the time of Boccace , who likewise receiv'd no little Help ...
... Things , had this in common , that they refin'd their Mother- Tongues ; but with this difference , that Dante had 1 begun to file their Language , at least in Verse , before the time of Boccace , who likewise receiv'd no little Help ...
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... thing which shocks Religion , or Good Manners , they are at best , what Horace says of good Numbers without good Sense , Versus inopes rerum , nugæque canore : Thus far , I hope , I am Right in Court , without renouncing to my other ...
... thing which shocks Religion , or Good Manners , they are at best , what Horace says of good Numbers without good Sense , Versus inopes rerum , nugæque canore : Thus far , I hope , I am Right in Court , without renouncing to my other ...
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... thing which I have formerly said in his just Praise : For his Episodes are almost wholly of his own Invention ; and the Form which he has given to the Telling , makes the Tale his own , even though the Original Story had been the same ...
... thing which I have formerly said in his just Praise : For his Episodes are almost wholly of his own Invention ; and the Form which he has given to the Telling , makes the Tale his own , even though the Original Story had been the same ...
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Aeneid appear'd Baucis and Philemon Beauty behold blow boast Boccace brave breast breath call'd Canterbury Tales charms Chaucer cheeks circling hours command Dæmon dart dead dear Death Death Wrecks deed Doctor doth Dryden e'en e'er ev'ry fair Fame fatal Fate fear feel fierce fond fool form'd Fungus gain'd give glory grace grave heard heart Honour hour Iliad impart JACK Lady LAPWING learn'd length Life's ling'ring liv'd live Love man's mortal ne'er never night nought Numbers o'er Ogilby Ovid pain pass'd pleasure PLUTUS Poet pride Prince of Condé proud rich round sage scene sense smile soon spirits Squire strife tale tell thee There's thing thought Tis true toil TOM HIGGINS translated turn'd Twas twere twill us'd verse Virgil Virtue wait wealth wife Wife of Bathe wish wish'd word yield