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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 13
by English poets - 1790
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Fables Antient and Modern: Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ...

John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...will have this or that Convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it hapned to me^ I have built a Houfe, where I intended but a Lodge : Yet with better Succefs than a certain Nobleman, who beginning with a D,>g-kennel, never liv'd to finifh the Palace...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 3

John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...he alters his mind as tl;e work proceeds, and will have this or that convergence more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened...houfe, where I intended but a lodge : yet with better luccels than a certain nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never lived to finifh the palace...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...: he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened...nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never lived to rinifh the palace he had contrived. From tranflating the firft of Homer's Iliads (which I intended...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...: he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened...with better fuccefs than a certain nobleman, who, begmning with a dog-kennel, never lived to finifh the palace he had contrived. From tranflating the...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 15

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...: he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened...dog-kennel • , never lived to finifh the palace h; had contrived • . From tranflating the firft of Homer's Iliads (which I intended as an eflay to...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...: he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or that convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened...nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never lived to finish the palace he had contrived. From tranflating the firft of Homer's Iliads (which I intended...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...have this or that convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happen* ed to me : I have built a houfe, where I intended but...nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never lived to finilh the palace he had contrived. From tranflating the firft of Homer's Iliads (which I intended...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...have this or that convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happen* ed to me : I have built a houfe,. where I intended but...fuccefs than a certain nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kenne!, never lived to finifh . • the palace he had contrived. From tranflating the firft of...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...intended : he alters his mind as the work proceeds, and will have this or at convenience more, of which he had not thought when he began. So has it happened to me : I have built a houfe, where I intended but | lodge : yet with better fuccefs than a certain nobleman, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, never...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 6

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...with better fuccefs than a certain •feuo, who, beginning with a dog-kennel, tet lived to finifli the palace he had contrived. from tranflating the firft of Homer's Iliads •HI intended a* an eflay to the whole work) Cwcdti to the tranflation of the twelfth book ' Ond's...
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