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 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... poetry and good eating , who seem to have attended the tables of the richer sort , much like the old provincial poets , or our own British bards , and sang there , to some instrument of music , the achievements of their ancestors , and ...
... poetry and good eating , who seem to have attended the tables of the richer sort , much like the old provincial poets , or our own British bards , and sang there , to some instrument of music , the achievements of their ancestors , and ...
الصفحة 405
... 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 . It was now time for the other kinds of poetry to have their turn : however , the first that sprung up and flourished to any degree , was still a scyon from the same root . What I mean , is Satire ; the pro- duce of the old ...
... poets . It was now time for the other kinds of poetry to have their turn : however , the first that sprung up and flourished to any degree , was still a scyon from the same root . What I mean , is Satire ; the pro- duce of the old ...
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