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One of their best poets represents before they took root or flourished to any them '
as very obscure and very contempdegree . Poetry was the first that did so ; tible ;
one of their best historians avoids but such a poetry , as one might expect ...
One of their best poets represents before they took root or flourished to any them '
as very obscure and very contempdegree . Poetry was the first that did so ; tible ;
one of their best historians avoids but such a poetry , as one might expect ...
Page 407
What I mean , is Satire ; the pro- poems of Catullus ; the philosophical poem duce
of the old comedy . ... best way to settle the characters poetry acquainted with
philosophy : and and merils of these poets of the first age , Catullus began to
shew ...
What I mean , is Satire ; the pro- poems of Catullus ; the philosophical poem duce
of the old comedy . ... best way to settle the characters poetry acquainted with
philosophy : and and merils of these poets of the first age , Catullus began to
shew ...
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Remarks on some of the best Englisk of his poem , which is infinitely the worst ,
dramatic Poets . imitates Homer so very servilely , that ( for Shakspeare was the
man who , of all example ) he gives the king of Jerusalem modern and perhaps ...
Remarks on some of the best Englisk of his poem , which is infinitely the worst ,
dramatic Poets . imitates Homer so very servilely , that ( for Shakspeare was the
man who , of all example ) he gives the king of Jerusalem modern and perhaps ...
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Practice necessary for forming a Syle Blair 401 95 On Plainness and Perspicuity Felton 436 | 34 |
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| Title | Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry |
| Editor | Vicesimus Knox |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 1 pages |
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