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... 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 verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme ...
... 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 verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme ...
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... forming , fmiling , lightning , backing , and thundering . The whole is as if I should 66 66 fay thus I will make my counterfeit " fmiles look like a flattering ftone - horse , " which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the ...
... forming , fmiling , lightning , backing , and thundering . The whole is as if I should 66 66 fay thus I will make my counterfeit " fmiles look like a flattering ftone - horse , " which , being backed with a trooper , does but gild the ...
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... formed by Dry- den and Lee , in conjunction , from the works . of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Don Sebaftian ( 1690 ) is commonly esteemed either the DRY ...
... formed by Dry- den and Lee , in conjunction , from the works . of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Don Sebaftian ( 1690 ) is commonly esteemed either the DRY ...
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... formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He confidered the epick as necef- farily including fome kind of fupernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels ...
... formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He confidered the epick as necef- farily including fome kind of fupernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels ...
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... formed . The furprizes and terrors of enchantments , which have fucceeded to the intrigues and oppofitions of Pagan deities , afford very ftriking scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau obferves , and ...
... formed . The furprizes and terrors of enchantments , which have fucceeded to the intrigues and oppofitions of Pagan deities , afford very ftriking scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau obferves , and ...
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