The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... Rome ; yet this may be said in behalf of Ovid , that no man has ever treated the passion of Holiday , had fixed the judgment of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a better way could be found than they had taken , though ...
... Rome ; yet this may be said in behalf of Ovid , that no man has ever treated the passion of Holiday , had fixed the judgment of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a better way could be found than they had taken , though ...
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... Rome , 761 . From her daughter indeed , the younger Julia , who was banished in the fame year with Ovid , and died twenty years afterwards , ( Tacit . Annal . iv . 71. ) he night have received favours ; but she could not be shadowed ...
... Rome , 761 . From her daughter indeed , the younger Julia , who was banished in the fame year with Ovid , and died twenty years afterwards , ( Tacit . Annal . iv . 71. ) he night have received favours ; but she could not be shadowed ...
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... Rome , though it be left so obscure to afterages . But to leave conjectures on a subject so incer- tain , and to write somewhat more authentick of this poet . That he frequented the court of Augustus , and was well received in it , is ...
... Rome , though it be left so obscure to afterages . But to leave conjectures on a subject so incer- tain , and to write somewhat more authentick of this poet . That he frequented the court of Augustus , and was well received in it , is ...
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... , A. U. C. 691 , and died in the year of Rome , 734 . a year before Virgil . Propertius was born , A. U. C. 705 . and died in the same year with Horace , 746 . out to ostentation , yet their common practice was to OVID'S EPISTLES . 11.
... , A. U. C. 691 , and died in the year of Rome , 734 . a year before Virgil . Propertius was born , A. U. C. 705 . and died in the same year with Horace , 746 . out to ostentation , yet their common practice was to OVID'S EPISTLES . 11.
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... Rome , and under the empire of Augustus . There seems to be no great variety in the particular subjects which he has chosen ; most of the Epistles being written from ladies who were forsaken by their lovers : which is the reason that ...
... Rome , and under the empire of Augustus . There seems to be no great variety in the particular subjects which he has chosen ; most of the Epistles being written from ladies who were forsaken by their lovers : which is the reason that ...
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