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Page 288
... satire of Horace ( Book ii . Sat. 5 ) , wherein , following Horace closely and bitterly , Wyatt applied to court life the principles of Macchiavelli : " Use virtue as it goeth nowadays In word alone , to make thy language sweet , And of ...
... satire of Horace ( Book ii . Sat. 5 ) , wherein , following Horace closely and bitterly , Wyatt applied to court life the principles of Macchiavelli : " Use virtue as it goeth nowadays In word alone , to make thy language sweet , And of ...
Page 370
... satire , which upholds with religious earnestness a manly and true life . Satire , who has Plain Dealing for father , Simplicity for mother , and Poesy for sister , complains here that his sister has been married to Vain Delight , and ...
... satire , which upholds with religious earnestness a manly and true life . Satire , who has Plain Dealing for father , Simplicity for mother , and Poesy for sister , complains here that his sister has been married to Vain Delight , and ...
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... satires of Ariosto , and who , because he was the first to write English satire in the manner of Juvenal , ignorantly believed himself to be the first English satirist . " I first adventure , " he said in his prologue- " I first ...
... satires of Ariosto , and who , because he was the first to write English satire in the manner of Juvenal , ignorantly believed himself to be the first English satirist . " I first adventure , " he said in his prologue- " I first ...
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