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The Art of English Poetry: Containing, Rules for Making Verses; A Collection of the Most Natural, Agreeable, and Sublime Thoughts, Viz; Allusions, ... Are to Be Found in the Best English Poets
Excerpt from The Art of English Containing, Rules for Making Verses; A Collection of the Most Natural, Agreeable, and Sublime Thoughts, Viz; Allusions, Similes, Descriptions, and Characters of Persons and Things, That Are to Be Found in the Best English Poets
And does his Charge and Labour pay fwith good unfought Experiments by the way.
That the Reader may Judge of every Pafage with due De ference for each Author, he will find their Names at the Bird of the lafl Line, and as the late Von/ions of the Greek and Roman Poets have not a little contrzhuted to this Collegian, Homer, Anacxeon, Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, éwc, are cited with their Tran/lators And after each Author's Name are quoted their Plays and other Poems. From whence the Pafliages are extruded.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
And does his Charge and Labour pay fwith good unfought Experiments by the way.
That the Reader may Judge of every Pafage with due De ference for each Author, he will find their Names at the Bird of the lafl Line, and as the late Von/ions of the Greek and Roman Poets have not a little contrzhuted to this Collegian, Homer, Anacxeon, Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, éwc, are cited with their Tran/lators And after each Author's Name are quoted their Plays and other Poems. From whence the Pafliages are extruded.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
314 pages, Paperback
First published October 2, 2009
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