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The cave of Polypheme might furnish out the ideas of their giants , and Andromeda might give occasion for stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at such a critical feafori by their ...
The cave of Polypheme might furnish out the ideas of their giants , and Andromeda might give occasion for stories of distressed damsels on the point of being devoured by dragons , and delivered at such a critical feafori by their ...
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... that in this he follows the steps of Pius V. his predeceffor , of blefled memory , and which threatens with severe punifliments all those , who shall dare to give any disturbance to those booksellers to whom this privilege'is ...
... that in this he follows the steps of Pius V. his predeceffor , of blefled memory , and which threatens with severe punifliments all those , who shall dare to give any disturbance to those booksellers to whom this privilege'is ...
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What solid reason can we give why the Romans , who fo happily imitated the Greeks in many respects , and breathed a truly tragic spirit , could yet never excel in tragedy , though so fond of theatrical fpectacles ?
What solid reason can we give why the Romans , who fo happily imitated the Greeks in many respects , and breathed a truly tragic spirit , could yet never excel in tragedy , though so fond of theatrical fpectacles ?
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Among a multitude of objects delineated with the utmost force * , which we might select on * Whence it came to pass that Spenser did not give his poem the due fimplicity , coherence and unity of a legiti . mate Epopea , the reader may ...
Among a multitude of objects delineated with the utmost force * , which we might select on * Whence it came to pass that Spenser did not give his poem the due fimplicity , coherence and unity of a legiti . mate Epopea , the reader may ...
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Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet , His moral pleafes , not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic , nay Pindaric art , But still I love the language of his heart , His prose works give us the most amiable idea both of his abilities ...
Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet , His moral pleafes , not his pointed wit ; Forgot his epic , nay Pindaric art , But still I love the language of his heart , His prose works give us the most amiable idea both of his abilities ...
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