The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... Italian humanist and author of the important Art of Poetry . He was born in Cremona . 709 . Latium : The reference here is to ancient Italy . The rules a nation , born to serve , obeys ; And Boileau still in right of Horace sways . But ...
... Italian humanist and author of the important Art of Poetry . He was born in Cremona . 709 . Latium : The reference here is to ancient Italy . The rules a nation , born to serve , obeys ; And Boileau still in right of Horace sways . But ...
Page 129
... Italy ( I have forgot which ) and trouble themselves no farther to examine it , but only refer to its authority ... Italy . Those countries are named because the New Testament is written in Greek ; and the vulgar Latin , which is the ...
... Italy ( I have forgot which ) and trouble themselves no farther to examine it , but only refer to its authority ... Italy . Those countries are named because the New Testament is written in Greek ; and the vulgar Latin , which is the ...
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... Italy the partisans on the side of Ariosto were by far the most powerful , and consequently in England ; for Italy in the age of Queen Elizabeth gave laws to our island in all matters of taste , as France has done ever since . At the ...
... Italy the partisans on the side of Ariosto were by far the most powerful , and consequently in England ; for Italy in the age of Queen Elizabeth gave laws to our island in all matters of taste , as France has done ever since . At the ...
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Alexander Pope | 15 |
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