The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Rofcommon only boasts unfpotted lays . His great work is his Effay on Tranflated Verfe ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Mif- cellanies : " It was my Lord ...
... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Rofcommon only boasts unfpotted lays . His great work is his Effay on Tranflated Verfe ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Mif- cellanies : " It was my Lord ...
Page 214
... Dryden . In return , fucceeding poets have borrowed from Rof- common . In the verfes on the Lap - dog , the pronouns ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Rofcommon , " fays fhe , " is certainly one " of the most ...
... Dryden . In return , fucceeding poets have borrowed from Rof- common . In the verfes on the Lap - dog , the pronouns ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Rofcommon , " fays fhe , " is certainly one " of the most ...
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... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the fame occafion ; but they were young men , ftruggling into notice , and hoping for fome ... Charles the Second . It is not poffible to read , without fome contempt and indignation , poems of the fame author , ...
... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the fame occafion ; but they were young men , ftruggling into notice , and hoping for fome ... Charles the Second . It is not poffible to read , without fome contempt and indignation , poems of the fame author , ...
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... Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem on the happy restoration and return of his most facred Majefty King Charles the Second . The reproach of ...
... Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX , a poem on the happy restoration and return of his most facred Majefty King Charles the Second . The reproach of ...
Page 313
... Charles the Second , who had formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfifi- cation he was more ...
... Charles the Second , who had formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfifi- cation he was more ...
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