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... Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them , particularly , to Palamon and Arcite , Sigif- munda and Guifcardo , Theodore and Ho- noria ; and above all , to his ...
... Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them , particularly , to Palamon and Arcite , Sigif- munda and Guifcardo , Theodore and Ho- noria ; and above all , to his ...
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... Dryden , prefixed to the tranflation of Virgil . Lord Bolingbroke affured POPE , that Dryden often declared to him . that he got more from the Spanish critics alone , than from the Italian , French , and all other critics put together ...
... Dryden , prefixed to the tranflation of Virgil . Lord Bolingbroke affured POPE , that Dryden often declared to him . that he got more from the Spanish critics alone , than from the Italian , French , and all other critics put together ...
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Joseph Warton. * 22. Dryden alone * ( what wonder ? ) came not nigh ; Dryden alone escap'd his judging eye ; But ftill , the great have kindness in reserve , He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve + . OUR poet , with true gratitude ...
Joseph Warton. * 22. Dryden alone * ( what wonder ? ) came not nigh ; Dryden alone escap'd his judging eye ; But ftill , the great have kindness in reserve , He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve + . OUR poet , with true gratitude ...
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