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 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... father . This then is the allay of Ovid's writing , which is sufficiently recompensed by his other excel- lencies : nay this very fault is not without its beauties ; for the most severe censor cannot but be pleased with the prodigality ...
... father . This then is the allay of Ovid's writing , which is sufficiently recompensed by his other excel- lencies : nay this very fault is not without its beauties ; for the most severe censor cannot but be pleased with the prodigality ...
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... father of our English numbers , upon the sight of his first verses by the wits of the last age , that he came out into the world forty thousand strong , before they heard of him . * Here in imitation of my * According to Antony Wood ...
... father of our English numbers , upon the sight of his first verses by the wits of the last age , that he came out into the world forty thousand strong , before they heard of him . * Here in imitation of my * According to Antony Wood ...
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... father's death , ( Jan. 6 , 1638-9 ) had lived in great dissi- pation , and as Wood says , was considered by his contem- poraries as " a slow and dreaming young man , more ad- dicted to cards and dice , than to study . " Waller , on the ...
... father's death , ( Jan. 6 , 1638-9 ) had lived in great dissi- pation , and as Wood says , was considered by his contem- poraries as " a slow and dreaming young man , more ad- dicted to cards and dice , than to study . " Waller , on the ...
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... Father Bouhours has somewhat encouraged me in this attempt . Had not Monsieur St. Evremont ' A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays , translated from the French of Monsieur de St. Evremont , ( who was born in 1613 , and died in London ...
... Father Bouhours has somewhat encouraged me in this attempt . Had not Monsieur St. Evremont ' A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays , translated from the French of Monsieur de St. Evremont , ( who was born in 1613 , and died in London ...
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... father's nakedness . * But after all , we must confess . that neas was none of the greatest heroes , and that Virgil was sensible of it himself . But what could he do ? the Trojan on whom he was to build the Roman empire , had been ...
... father's nakedness . * But after all , we must confess . that neas was none of the greatest heroes , and that Virgil was sensible of it himself . But what could he do ? the Trojan on whom he was to build the Roman empire , had been ...
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