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Page 11
He placed these in one of the towers of the old Louvre , which was called the tower of the library . This was the foundation of the present magnificent royal library at Paris . : The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been ...
He placed these in one of the towers of the old Louvre , which was called the tower of the library . This was the foundation of the present magnificent royal library at Paris . : The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been ...
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The warmth and melody of these pieces , has never been excelled in our language , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages from these three poems ...
The warmth and melody of these pieces , has never been excelled in our language , I mean in rhyme . As general and unexemplified criticism is always useless and absurd , I must beg leave to select a few passages from these three poems ...
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These passages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being remarkable . But it is not unusual for the same person to succeed in describing externally a distressful character , who may miserably ...
These passages are chiefly of the pathetic fort ; for which Dryden in his tragedies is far from being remarkable . But it is not unusual for the same person to succeed in describing externally a distressful character , who may miserably ...
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... But above all , the whole description of the entering the lists * , and of the ensuing * The reader is desired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
... But above all , the whole description of the entering the lists * , and of the ensuing * The reader is desired all along to remember , that the first delineation of all these images is in Chaucer , or Boccace , and it might be worth ...
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It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a severe satire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit ...
It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal intended a severe satire on him , in these well known lines which have been commonly interpreted as a panegyric . Curritur ad vocem jucundam et carmen amica Thebaidos , latam fecit ...
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