An Apology for PoetryBobbs-Merrill, 1970 - 95 pages |
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... poetical helps to make us know the force love of our country hath in us.120 Let us but hear old Anchises speaking in the midst of Troy's flames , 121 or see Ulysses in the fulness of all Calypso's delights bewail his absence from barren ...
... poetical helps to make us know the force love of our country hath in us.120 Let us but hear old Anchises speaking in the midst of Troy's flames , 121 or see Ulysses in the fulness of all Calypso's delights bewail his absence from barren ...
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... poetical ) of a perfect pattern , 151 but as in Alexander152 or Scipio153 himself , show doings , some to be 143 See n . 59 , above . 144Justin ( third century A.D. ) produced an epitome of Pompeius Trogus ' Historiae Philippicae ...
... poetical ) of a perfect pattern , 151 but as in Alexander152 or Scipio153 himself , show doings , some to be 143 See n . 59 , above . 144Justin ( third century A.D. ) produced an epitome of Pompeius Trogus ' Historiae Philippicae ...
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... poetical preface ; thus doing , you shall be most fair , most rich , most wise , most all , you shall dwell upon superlatives . Thus doing , though you be libertino patre natus , 470 you shall suddenly grow Hurculea proles , 471 Si quid ...
... poetical preface ; thus doing , you shall be most fair , most rich , most wise , most all , you shall dwell upon superlatives . Thus doing , though you be libertino patre natus , 470 you shall suddenly grow Hurculea proles , 471 Si quid ...
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