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Page viii
... Fables To Her Grace the Duchess of Ormond Palamon and Arcite ; or , the Knight's Tale , Book I. Page 174 180 200 206 Book II . 227 Book III . 251 The Cock and the Fox 292 SONGS , ODES , AND A MASQUE . THE FAIR viii CONTENTS .
... Fables To Her Grace the Duchess of Ormond Palamon and Arcite ; or , the Knight's Tale , Book I. Page 174 180 200 206 Book II . 227 Book III . 251 The Cock and the Fox 292 SONGS , ODES , AND A MASQUE . THE FAIR viii CONTENTS .
Page 186
... Arcite was written in all probability by some Italian wit in a former age , as I shall prove hereafter the tale of Gri- zild was the invention of Petrarch ; by him sent to Boccace ; from whom it came to Chaucer : Troilus and Cressida ...
... Arcite was written in all probability by some Italian wit in a former age , as I shall prove hereafter the tale of Gri- zild was the invention of Petrarch ; by him sent to Boccace ; from whom it came to Chaucer : Troilus and Cressida ...
Page 187
... Arcite violent in his love , and unjust in the pursuit of it ; yet when he came to die , he made him think more reasonably he repents not of his love , for that had altered his character ; but acknowledges the injustice of his proceed ...
... Arcite violent in his love , and unjust in the pursuit of it ; yet when he came to die , he made him think more reasonably he repents not of his love , for that had altered his character ; but acknowledges the injustice of his proceed ...
Page 194
... Arcite , where the temple of Diana is described , you find these verses , in all the editions of our author : There saw I Danè turned into a tree , I mean not the goddess Diane , But Venus daughter , which that hight Dane : Which after ...
... Arcite , where the temple of Diana is described , you find these verses , in all the editions of our author : There saw I Danè turned into a tree , I mean not the goddess Diane , But Venus daughter , which that hight Dane : Which after ...
Page 196
... Arcite , which is of the Epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the Æneis : the story is more pleasing than either of them , the manners as perfect , the diction as poetical , the learning as deep and various ; and ...
... Arcite , which is of the Epic kind , and perhaps not much inferior to the Ilias or the Æneis : the story is more pleasing than either of them , the manners as perfect , the diction as poetical , the learning as deep and various ; and ...
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ALBION AND ALBANIUS Arcite arms beauty behold betwixt blood breast call'd chang'd Chaucer court damn dare dead death delight disdain Dryden e'en e'er Emily English EPILOGUE eyes fair fate fear fight fire fool fops forc'd GEORGE ETHERIDGE grace happy haste heart heaven honour hope humour JOHN DRYDEN joys judge kind king ladies live lord Lord Roscommon Lucretius mighty mind monarch mortal muse nature ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er once Ovid Oxford bells pain Palamon Pindar plain play pleas'd pleasure poet poetry prince PROLOGUE queen race rais'd reign rest reviving play rhyme sacred scarce scenes sense sleep song Sophocles soul stage strife sweet theatres Thebes thee Theocritus Theseus THESPIS things thou thought translated true twas UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD verse Virgil whate'er Whig words wretch writ write youth