Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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Page 245
... same wood ; " And if , fays he , fuch virtue in you lie , " That he who dares your flimy folds unty " Muft change his kind , a second stroke I'll try . Again he struck the fnakes , and stood again New fex'd , and ftraight recover'd into ...
... same wood ; " And if , fays he , fuch virtue in you lie , " That he who dares your flimy folds unty " Muft change his kind , a second stroke I'll try . Again he struck the fnakes , and stood again New fex'd , and ftraight recover'd into ...
Page 300
... same truth to the mind of man ; and to choose the plea- santest of these ways , is that which chiefly distinguishes poetry from profe , and makes Virgil's rules of husbandry pleasanter to read than Varro's . Where the profe - writer ...
... same truth to the mind of man ; and to choose the plea- santest of these ways , is that which chiefly distinguishes poetry from profe , and makes Virgil's rules of husbandry pleasanter to read than Varro's . Where the profe - writer ...
Page 301
... same thing , and how much pleasanter every manner of expreffion is , than the plain and direct mention of it would have been . It is in the second Geor- gic , where he tells us what trees will bear grafting on each other . Et fæpe ...
... same thing , and how much pleasanter every manner of expreffion is , than the plain and direct mention of it would have been . It is in the second Geor- gic , where he tells us what trees will bear grafting on each other . Et fæpe ...
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