The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volume 1, Issue 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... judgments of three mighty kingdoms appear to depend upon yours . The people gave me some little applause before ; but ... judgment , that , for the sake of that , I shall be willing henceforward to believe that I am not wholly desertless ...
... judgments of three mighty kingdoms appear to depend upon yours . The people gave me some little applause before ; but ... judgment , that , for the sake of that , I shall be willing henceforward to believe that I am not wholly desertless ...
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... judgment , by undertaking any thing after him . There is Moses and the Prophets in his council . Jupiter and Juno , as the poets tell us , made Tiresias their umpire in a certain merry dispute , which fell out in heaven betwixt them ...
... judgment , by undertaking any thing after him . There is Moses and the Prophets in his council . Jupiter and Juno , as the poets tell us , made Tiresias their umpire in a certain merry dispute , which fell out in heaven betwixt them ...
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... " Old Jacob by deep judgment sway'd , " To please the wise beholders , " Has placed old Nassau's hook - nosed head " On poor Æneas ' shoulders . of Sir Robert Howard's , written long since , and DRYDEN'S LETTERS . 55.
... " Old Jacob by deep judgment sway'd , " To please the wise beholders , " Has placed old Nassau's hook - nosed head " On poor Æneas ' shoulders . of Sir Robert Howard's , written long since , and DRYDEN'S LETTERS . 55.
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... judgment . I hope it has done you service , and will do more . You told me not , but the town says you are print- ing Ovid de Arte Amandi . I know my transla- tion is very uncorrect ; but at the same time I know , nobody else can do it ...
... judgment . I hope it has done you service , and will do more . You told me not , but the town says you are print- ing Ovid de Arte Amandi . I know my transla- tion is very uncorrect ; but at the same time I know , nobody else can do it ...
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... judgment of my unbyass'd friends , who have some of them the honour to be known to you ; and they think there is nothing which can justly give offence in that part of the poem . I say not this , to cast a blind on your judgment ...
... judgment of my unbyass'd friends , who have some of them the honour to be known to you ; and they think there is nothing which can justly give offence in that part of the poem . I say not this , to cast a blind on your judgment ...
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