Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 стор. An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... poets sleep in peace with all their works ; and , if we may take the word of the other Roman writers of a better age , it is no great loss to us . One of their best poets represents them as very obscure and very contemp- tible ; one of ...
... poets sleep in peace with all their works ; and , if we may take the word of the other Roman writers of a better age , it is no great loss to us . One of their best poets represents them as very obscure and very contemp- tible ; one of ...
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... poets who deserved a lasting crown from the Muses . " These three poets were actors as well as poets ; and seem all of them to have wrote whatever was wanted for the stage , rather than to have con- sulted their own turn or genius ...
... poets who deserved a lasting crown from the Muses . " These three poets were actors as well as poets ; and seem all of them to have wrote whatever was wanted for the stage , rather than to have con- sulted their own turn or genius ...
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... poets the Romans ever had . Spence . $ 45 . Of the Rise of Salire : Of LUCILIUS , LUCRETIUS , and CATULLUS . : All this while , that is , for abave one hundred years , the stage , as you see , was almost solely in possession of the ...
... poets the Romans ever had . Spence . $ 45 . Of the Rise of Salire : Of LUCILIUS , LUCRETIUS , and CATULLUS . : All this while , that is , for abave one hundred years , the stage , as you see , was almost solely in possession of the ...
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