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... Virgil with the first of Statius is not happier . Virgil , he says , is soft and gentle , and would have thought Statius mad , if he had heard him thundering out : Quĉ superimposito moles geminata colosso . Statius perhaps heats himself ...
... Virgil with the first of Statius is not happier . Virgil , he says , is soft and gentle , and would have thought Statius mad , if he had heard him thundering out : Quĉ superimposito moles geminata colosso . Statius perhaps heats himself ...
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... Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of Virgil difficult to be retained . The massy trunk of senti- ment is safe by its solidity , but the blossoms of elocu ...
... Virgil is grace and splendour of diction . The beauties of Homer are therefore difficult to be lost , and those of Virgil difficult to be retained . The massy trunk of senti- ment is safe by its solidity , but the blossoms of elocu ...
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... Virgil would not pretend to prescribe rules for that which depends not on the husbandman's care , but the dis ... Virgil's meaning , and intelligible to everybody ; and when to sow the corn is a needless addition . ' The care of ...
... Virgil would not pretend to prescribe rules for that which depends not on the husbandman's care , but the dis ... Virgil's meaning , and intelligible to everybody ; and when to sow the corn is a needless addition . ' The care of ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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