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Pagina 276
... believe that Dryden , having employed his mind , active as it was , upon different studies , and filled it , capacious as it was , with other materials , came unprovided to the controversy , and wanted rather skill to discover the right ...
... believe that Dryden , having employed his mind , active as it was , upon different studies , and filled it , capacious as it was , with other materials , came unprovided to the controversy , and wanted rather skill to discover the right ...
Pagina 289
... believe ? He has been described as magisterially presiding over the younger writers , and assuming the distribu- tion of poetical fame ; but he who excels has a right to teach , and he whose judgement is incontestable may , without ...
... believe ? He has been described as magisterially presiding over the younger writers , and assuming the distribu- tion of poetical fame ; but he who excels has a right to teach , and he whose judgement is incontestable may , without ...
Pagina 342
... believe , first used by Spenser , for the sake of closing his stanza with a fuller sound . We had a longer measure of fourteen syllables , into which the Eneid was translated by Phaer , and other works of the ancients by other writers ...
... believe , first used by Spenser , for the sake of closing his stanza with a fuller sound . We had a longer measure of fourteen syllables , into which the Eneid was translated by Phaer , and other works of the ancients by other writers ...
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