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Page 259
... considered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to distribute copiously as occasions arose . By these dissertations the publick judge- ment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who conversed with Dryden ...
... considered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to distribute copiously as occasions arose . By these dissertations the publick judge- ment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who conversed with Dryden ...
Page 295
... considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously ...
... considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously ...
Page 428
... considered by the greater part of readers as supremely excelling both in poetry and criticism . Part of his reputa- tion may be probably ascribed to the advancement of his fortune : when , as Swift observes , he became a states- man ...
... considered by the greater part of readers as supremely excelling both in poetry and criticism . Part of his reputa- tion may be probably ascribed to the advancement of his fortune : when , as Swift observes , he became a states- man ...
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