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... Æneid had that number ; but he had leisure or perseverance only to write the third part . Epic poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to ...
... Æneid had that number ; but he had leisure or perseverance only to write the third part . Epic poems have been left unfinished by Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to ...
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... Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The ...
... Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left him . In 1642 , he published " The ...
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... Æneid to the Earl of Mulgrave . This economy of flattery , at once lavish and discreet , did not pass without observation . This translation was censured by Milbourne , a clergyman , styled , by Pope , " the fairest of critics ...
... Æneid to the Earl of Mulgrave . This economy of flattery , at once lavish and discreet , did not pass without observation . This translation was censured by Milbourne , a clergyman , styled , by Pope , " the fairest of critics ...
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... Æneid , which , when dragged into the world , did not live long enough to cry . I have never seen it ; but that such a version there is , or has been , perhaps some old catalogue informed me . With not much better success , Trapp , when ...
... Æneid , which , when dragged into the world , did not live long enough to cry . I have never seen it ; but that such a version there is , or has been , perhaps some old catalogue informed me . With not much better success , Trapp , when ...
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... Æneid was translated by Phaer , and other works of the ancients by other writers ; of which Chapman's Iliad was , I believe , the last . The two first lines of Phaer's third Æneid will exemplify this measure : When Asia's state was ...
... Æneid was translated by Phaer , and other works of the ancients by other writers ; of which Chapman's Iliad was , I believe , the last . The two first lines of Phaer's third Æneid will exemplify this measure : When Asia's state was ...
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acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind king known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present produced published queen reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey Whigs write written wrote Young