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" Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. "
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: With the Life of the Author and the ... - Page ix
by Edmund Spenser - 1807
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Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy

Sir John Denham - English drama - 1709 - 354 pages
...flower Nature got the ftart j But both in him fo equal are, None knows which bears the happy'ft (hare 5 To him no Author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient Gold, Nor, with Ben Johnfon, did make bold To plunder all the Roman ftores...
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The First Part of Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New ..., Part 5

John Dryden, John Milton, William D'Avenant - 1716 - 418 pages
...flower Nature got the ftartj But both in him fo equal are, None knows which beats the happy'ft iharej To him no Author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own j He melred not the ancient Gold, Nor with Ben Johnfan did make bold To plunder all the "Roman Stores...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 37-38

John Bell - English poetry - 1777 - 658 pages
...flower Nature got the ftart ; But both in him fo equal are, None knows whieh bears the happieft ihare. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; 30 He melted not the aneient gold, Nor, with Ben. Johnfon, did make bold To plunder all the Roman...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...private pity ftrove with pub" lick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence " with fate." On Cowley. " To him no author was unknown, *' Yet what he wrote was all his " own ; " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate, *' He did not fteal, but emulate ! " And when he would like them " appear, " Their garb, but...
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The Works of the English Poets: Denham and Spratt

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 486 pages
...flower Nature got the ftart ; But both in him fo equal are, None knows which bears the happieft mare : To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonfon, did make bold To plunder all the Roman ftores...
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preface biograpical and critical, to the works of the english poets

samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...private pity flrove with pub" lick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence " with fate." On Cowley.. " To him no author was unknown, " Yet what he wrote was all bis " own; " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate r . " He did not fteal, but emulate ! " And when he would...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...private pity flrove with publick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence with fate," On Cowley. ** To him no author was unknown, " Yet what he wrote was all his own ; " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftatc, " He did not ftcal, but emulate ! " And when he would like them appear, " Their garb, h,ut not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...private pity ftrove with publick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence with late,1' On Cowley, ** To him no author was unknown, * * Yet what he wrote was all his own ; ** Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate, ** He did not fteal, but emulate * " And when he would like them appear, ** Their garb, but...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...Now private pity ftrove with publick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence with fete." On Cowley, " To' him no author was unknown, " Yet what he wrote was all his own ; " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate, " He did not fteal, but emulate ! " And when he would like them appear, " Their garb, but not...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...private pity ftrove with publick hate, " Reafon with rage, and eloquence with fate.' 1 On Cowley. " To him no author was unknown, ** Yet what he wrote was all his own; " Horace's " Horace's wit, and Virgil's ftate, " He did not (leal, but emulate! " And when he would like them...
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