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... design is to recommend piety . " I confidered that " pleasure was not the only end of poesy , " and that even the inftructions of morality " were not fo wholly the business of a poet , " as that precepts and examples of piety were to be ...
... design is to recommend piety . " I confidered that " pleasure was not the only end of poesy , " and that even the inftructions of morality " were not fo wholly the business of a poet , " as that precepts and examples of piety were to be ...
Page 34
... designed to render the senseless play little , to have searched for some such pedantry as this : 66 " Two ifs fcarce makes one poffi biity . If justice will take all , and nothing give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . " To ...
... designed to render the senseless play little , to have searched for some such pedantry as this : 66 " Two ifs fcarce makes one poffi biity . If justice will take all , and nothing give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . " To ...
Page 82
... design ( they both having , out of refpect to the family , enjoined the lady " Elizabeth , and her fon , to keep their fa- " vour concealed to the world , and let it 66 pass for their own expence ) , readily came " out of their coaches ...
... design ( they both having , out of refpect to the family , enjoined the lady " Elizabeth , and her fon , to keep their fa- " vour concealed to the world , and let it 66 pass for their own expence ) , readily came " out of their coaches ...
Page 175
... , who found few abettors , and of whom it may be reasonably imagined , that many who fa- voured his design were ashamed of his info- lence . When When admiration had fubfided , the tranf- lation was more DRY DE N. 175.
... , who found few abettors , and of whom it may be reasonably imagined , that many who fa- voured his design were ashamed of his info- lence . When When admiration had fubfided , the tranf- lation was more DRY DE N. 175.
Page 198
... , fweet oil's inventor , kind ; And he , who firft the crooked plougb design'd , Sylvanus , god of all the woods , appear , Whofe hands a new - drawn tender cypress bear ! Ye Ye gods and goddesses , who e'er with love Would 198 DRYDEN .
... , fweet oil's inventor , kind ; And he , who firft the crooked plougb design'd , Sylvanus , god of all the woods , appear , Whofe hands a new - drawn tender cypress bear ! Ye Ye gods and goddesses , who e'er with love Would 198 DRYDEN .
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