The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were ...
... Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were ...
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... Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of ...
... Virgil , Statius , Spenser , and Cowley . That we have not the whole Davideis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . There are not many examples of ...
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... Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro positus , litem ut discerneret ...
... Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro positus , litem ut discerneret ...
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... I can find . The Latins ( qui Musas colunt severiores ) sometimes did it ; and their prince , Virgil , always : in whom the examples are innumerable , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it 68 COWLEY .
... I can find . The Latins ( qui Musas colunt severiores ) sometimes did it ; and their prince , Virgil , always : in whom the examples are innumerable , and taken notice of by all judicious men , so that it 68 COWLEY .
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... Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them ; that this opinion is erroneous , may be proba- bly concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled up one ...
... Virgil , whom he supposes not to have intended to complete them ; that this opinion is erroneous , may be proba- bly concluded , because this truncation is imitated by no subsequent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled up one ...
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