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Page 177
... pass , And but one day for triumph was allow'd , The consul was constrain'd his pomp to crowd ; And so the swift procession hurried on , That all , though not distinctly , might be shown : So in the straiten'd bounds of life confin'd ...
... pass , And but one day for triumph was allow'd , The consul was constrain'd his pomp to crowd ; And so the swift procession hurried on , That all , though not distinctly , might be shown : So in the straiten'd bounds of life confin'd ...
Page 230
... pass . Syphax puts Sempronius out of pain immediately , and , being a Numidian , abounding in wiles , supplies him with a stratagem for admission , that , I believe , is a nonpareil : ' Syph . Thou shalt have Juba's dress , and Juba's ...
... pass . Syphax puts Sempronius out of pain immediately , and , being a Numidian , abounding in wiles , supplies him with a stratagem for admission , that , I believe , is a nonpareil : ' Syph . Thou shalt have Juba's dress , and Juba's ...
Page 384
... pass the day in retrenching exuberances and correcting inaccuracies . The method of Pope , as may be col- lected from his translation , was to write his first thoughts in his first words , and gradually to amplify , decorate , rectify ...
... pass the day in retrenching exuberances and correcting inaccuracies . The method of Pope , as may be col- lected from his translation , was to write his first thoughts in his first words , and gradually to amplify , decorate , rectify ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote