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... CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . DRYDEN , P. I SMITH , 215 DUKE , 256 KING , 259 SPRAT , 267 HALIFAX , 277 PARNELL , 285 GARTH , 292 Rowe , 301 ADDISON , 321 HUGHES , 421 SHEFFIELD , 429 # 2 DRYDEN . DRYDEN . F the great poet whose life I ...
... CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . DRYDEN , P. I SMITH , 215 DUKE , 256 KING , 259 SPRAT , 267 HALIFAX , 277 PARNELL , 285 GARTH , 292 Rowe , 301 ADDISON , 321 HUGHES , 421 SHEFFIELD , 429 # 2 DRYDEN . DRYDEN . F the great poet whose life I ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. DRYDEN . F the great poet whose life I am about to delineate , the curiofity which his to delineate , reputation must excite , will require a display more ample than can now be ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. DRYDEN . F the great poet whose life I am about to delineate , the curiofity which his to delineate , reputation must excite , will require a display more ample than can now be ...
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... Whose corps might seem a conftellation . At the univerfity he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on ficti- tious fubjects or public occafions . He pro- bably confidered ...
... Whose corps might seem a conftellation . At the univerfity he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on ficti- tious fubjects or public occafions . He pro- bably confidered ...
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... From prefs , and plates in fleets do home- " ward come : " And in ridiculous and humble pride , " Their course in ballad - fingers baskets guide , C 3 " Whose " Whose greafy twigs do all new beauties take , DRYD E N. 21.
... From prefs , and plates in fleets do home- " ward come : " And in ridiculous and humble pride , " Their course in ballad - fingers baskets guide , C 3 " Whose " Whose greafy twigs do all new beauties take , DRYD E N. 21.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. " Whose greafy twigs do all new beauties take , " From the gay fhews thy dainty fculptures " make . Thy lines a mess of rhiming nonfenfe yield , " A fenfelefs tale , with ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. " Whose greafy twigs do all new beauties take , " From the gay fhews thy dainty fculptures " make . Thy lines a mess of rhiming nonfenfe yield , " A fenfelefs tale , with ...
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