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Page 18
... ! Never " was Dutch grout fuch clogging , thick , in- digeftible ftuff . But this is but a tafte to 66 66 ftay the ftomach ; we shall have a more plentiful mefs presently . Now to difh up the poet's broth , that " 4 " Now 18 DRYDEN .
... ! Never " was Dutch grout fuch clogging , thick , in- digeftible ftuff . But this is but a tafte to 66 66 ftay the ftomach ; we shall have a more plentiful mefs presently . Now to difh up the poet's broth , that " 4 " Now 18 DRYDEN .
Page 21
... Shall fly through the air- " That is , they fhall mount above like " falling ftars , or else they shall skip like two jacks with lanthorns , or Will with a wifp , " and Madge with a candle . " 66 And in their airy walk feal into their ...
... Shall fly through the air- " That is , they fhall mount above like " falling ftars , or else they shall skip like two jacks with lanthorns , or Will with a wifp , " and Madge with a candle . " 66 And in their airy walk feal into their ...
Page 99
... shall reject all that is light or debased . ' Tis true , that when the coarfe and worthlefs drofs Is purg'd away , there will be mighty lofs ; Ev'n Congreve , Southern , manly Wycherley , When thus refin'd , will grievous fufferers be ...
... shall reject all that is light or debased . ' Tis true , that when the coarfe and worthlefs drofs Is purg'd away , there will be mighty lofs ; Ev'n Congreve , Southern , manly Wycherley , When thus refin'd , will grievous fufferers be ...
Page 135
... shall be flain 1 ; A ram to you , ye Tempefts of the Main . He tells us , in the language of religion , Prayer ftorm'd the fkies , and ravifh'd Charles from thence , As heaven itself , is took by violence . And afterwards mentions one ...
... shall be flain 1 ; A ram to you , ye Tempefts of the Main . He tells us , in the language of religion , Prayer ftorm'd the fkies , and ravifh'd Charles from thence , As heaven itself , is took by violence . And afterwards mentions one ...
Page 148
... shall be made in the new city is elegant and poetical , and with an event which Poets . cannot always boaft has been happily ve- rified . The poem concludes with a fimile that might have better been omitted . Dryden , when he wrote this ...
... shall be made in the new city is elegant and poetical , and with an event which Poets . cannot always boaft has been happily ve- rified . The poem concludes with a fimile that might have better been omitted . Dryden , when he wrote this ...
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