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Page 111
... novelty of inftruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles were then in the hands of a few , who had gathered them partly from the Ancients , and partly from the Italians and French . The ftruc- ture of 6 from DRY D E N. IIt.
... novelty of inftruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles were then in the hands of a few , who had gathered them partly from the Ancients , and partly from the Italians and French . The ftruc- ture of 6 from DRY D E N. IIt.
Page 112
Samuel Johnson. from the Italians and French . The ftruc- ture of dramatick poems was then not gene- rally understood . Audiences applauded by inftinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . A writer who obtains his full purpose ...
Samuel Johnson. from the Italians and French . The ftruc- ture of dramatick poems was then not gene- rally understood . Audiences applauded by inftinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . A writer who obtains his full purpose ...
Page 178
... Italy ; of this , which , in defiance of criticifm , conti- nues Shakspeare the fovereign of the drama . His last work was his Fables , in which he gave us the first example of a mode of writ- ing which the Italians call refaccimento ...
... Italy ; of this , which , in defiance of criticifm , conti- nues Shakspeare the fovereign of the drama . His last work was his Fables , in which he gave us the first example of a mode of writ- ing which the Italians call refaccimento ...
Page 196
... Italy . Dryden fometimes puts the weak rhyme in the firft : Laugh , all the powers that favour tyranny , And all the standing army of the sky . Sometimes he concludes a period or para- graph with the first line of a couplet , which ...
... Italy . Dryden fometimes puts the weak rhyme in the firft : Laugh , all the powers that favour tyranny , And all the standing army of the sky . Sometimes he concludes a period or para- graph with the first line of a couplet , which ...
Page 218
... Italy , from a MS . in the Lambeth Library , marked N ° 933. p . 56 . ( Superfcribed ) " Al illuftriffimo Sigre " Carlo Dryden Camariere " d'Honore A. S. S. " In Roma . " Franca per Mantoua . " Sept. the 3d , our style . " " Dear Sons ...
... Italy , from a MS . in the Lambeth Library , marked N ° 933. p . 56 . ( Superfcribed ) " Al illuftriffimo Sigre " Carlo Dryden Camariere " d'Honore A. S. S. " In Roma . " Franca per Mantoua . " Sept. the 3d , our style . " " Dear Sons ...
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