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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ... - Page 329
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Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid I-VI

Virgil - 1834 - 314 pages
...He who removes them from the station wherein their master set them spoils the harmony. What he says of the sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his : they must be read in order as they lie : the least breath discomposes them ; and somewhat of their divinity...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 2

John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...He who removes them from the station wherein their master set them, spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies, may be as properly applied to every word of his : they must be read in order as they lie ; the least breath discomposes them ; and somewhat of their divinity...
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The Art of Poetry: The Poetical Treatises of Horace, Vida, and Boileau

Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1892 - 378 pages
...he who removes them from the station wherein their master sets them spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his • — they must be read in order as they lie; the least breath discomposes them, and somewhat of their divinity...
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Dedication of Examen poeticum. Discourse concerning the original and ...

John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pages
...who removes them from the station "whereirT" their master set them, spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his : they must be read in order as they lie ; the least breath discomposes 10 them ; and somewhat of their divinity...
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Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pages
...diction,' continues 'or (to speak English) in all his expressions.1 //'. xii. 299. ' What Virgil says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his ; they must be read in order as they lie ; the least breath discomposes them, and somewhat of their divinity...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 2

1907 - 408 pages
...who removes them from the stations wherever their master set them spoils their harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his: they must be read in order as they lie; the least breath discomposes them and somewhat of their divinity...
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Virgil's Æneid

Virgil - 1909 - 454 pages
...who removes them from the station wherein their master sets them, spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his: they must be read in order as they lie; the least breath discomposes them; and somewhat of their divinity...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden

John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...who removes them from the station wherein their master sets them, spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his: they must be read in order as they lie ; the least breath discomposes them; and somewhat of their divinity...
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Early Theories of Translation, Volume 28

Flora Ross Amos - 1920 - 210 pages
...He who removes them from the station wherein their master set them spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his : they must be read in order as they lie; the least breath discomposes them and somewhat of their divinity...
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Essays of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...He who removes them from the station wherein their master set them, spoils the harmony. What he says of the Sibyl's prophecies may be as properly applied to every word of his : they must be read in order as they lie ; the least breath discomposes to them ; and somewhat of their divinity...
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