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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ... - Page 588
by John Dryden - 1800
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Fables Antient and Modern: Translated Into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace ...

John Dryden - 1713 - 614 pages
...Manner of their Tales, and of their Telling, are fo fuited co their different Educations, Humours, and Callings, that each of them would be improper in any other Mouth. Even the grave and ferious Characters are diitinguiuYd by their feveral forts of Gravity : Their Difcourles are fuch as...
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The Miscellaneous Works: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales ..., Volume 3

John Dryden - 1760 - 526 pages
...and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are fo fuited to their different educations, humours and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and lerious characters are diftin^uifhed by their feveral forts of gravity : their diicouries are fuch...
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A new and general biographical dictionary, Volume 3

New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...manner of *' their tales and of their telling, are fo fuited to their diffe** rent educations, humours, and callings, that each of them " would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave '< and ferious characters are diftinguifhed by their feveral " forts of gravity : their difcourfes are fuch,...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 3

1761 - 614 pages
...their tales and of their telling, are fo fuited to their diffe" rent educations, humours, and railings, that each of them " would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave " and ferious characters are diftinguifhed by their feveral " forts of gravity: their difcourfes are fuch,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ...

John Dryden - 1767 - 392 pages
...and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are fo fuited to thejr different educations, humours and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and ferious characters are diftinguifhed by their feveral forts of gravity: their difcourfes are fuch as...
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British Biography; Or, An Accurate and Impartial Account of the Lives and ...

Joseph Towers - 1773 - 498 pages
...manner of their tales, and of their telling, are fo fuited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and ferious charafters are diftinguimed by their feveral forts of gravity ; their difcourfes are fuch as...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 pages
...manner of their tales, and of their telling, are fo fuited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. E.ven the grave and ferious charafters are diftinguifhed by their feveral forts of gravity : their dtfcourfes are fuch...
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The Works of the English Poets: Dryden

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 pages
...of their telling, are fo Anted to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each JD( them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and ferious characters are dirlinguifhed by their feveral forts of gravity •• their diicourles are...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

John Bell - 1782 - 552 pages
...manner of their tales, and of their telling, are fo fuited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and ferious characters are diftinguifhcd by their feveral forts of gravity; their difcourfes are fuch asbelong...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

John Bell - 1782 - 482 pages
...gravity; their difcoi.'rft s are fuch as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding, fuch as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his perfons are vicious, and fome vertuous; fome are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and fome...
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