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Page 15
... gives this character : " He's " an animal of a moft deplored understand- ing , without converfation . His being is " in a twilight of fenfe , and fome glimmer- ing of thought , which he can never " fashion into wit or English . His ...
... gives this character : " He's " an animal of a moft deplored understand- ing , without converfation . His being is " in a twilight of fenfe , and fome glimmer- ing of thought , which he can never " fashion into wit or English . His ...
Page 33
... gives this poetical " description of the fhip called the London : " The goodly London in her gallant trim , " The Phenix - daughter of the vanquisht old , " Like a rich bride does to the ocean fwim , " And on her fhadow rides in ...
... gives this poetical " description of the fhip called the London : " The goodly London in her gallant trim , " The Phenix - daughter of the vanquisht old , " Like a rich bride does to the ocean fwim , " And on her fhadow rides in ...
Page 34
... for some such pedantry as this : 66 " Two ifs fcarce makes one poffi biity . If justice will take all , and nothing give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . " To " To die or kill you is the alternative , 34 DRYDEN .
... for some such pedantry as this : 66 " Two ifs fcarce makes one poffi biity . If justice will take all , and nothing give , Justice , methinks , is not distributive . " To " To die or kill you is the alternative , 34 DRYDEN .
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... give the blow . " But mine is fixt so far above thy crown , " That all thy inen , " Piled on thy back , can never pull it down . " Now where that is , Almanzor's fate is " fixt , I cannot guefs ; but wherever it is , " I believe ...
... give the blow . " But mine is fixt so far above thy crown , " That all thy inen , " Piled on thy back , can never pull it down . " Now where that is , Almanzor's fate is " fixt , I cannot guefs ; but wherever it is , " I believe ...
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... gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpaffed : " I was induced to it in my own defence , 46 many hundred copies of it being difperfed abroad without my knowledge or confent ; " and every one gathering new faults , it ...
... gives for printing what was never acted , cannot be overpaffed : " I was induced to it in my own defence , 46 many hundred copies of it being difperfed abroad without my knowledge or confent ; " and every one gathering new faults , it ...
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Addiſon afterwards againſt almoſt anſwer becauſe beſt Cato cenfure character Charles Dryden compofitions confidered converfation criticiſm criticks defign defired difcover Dryden duke eafily earl Effay elegance English expreffed faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems feen feldom fent fentence fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon friends ftage ftill ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fupplied fuppofed fure genius Guife himſelf intereft itſelf John Dryden Juba Juvenal king laft laſt leaſt lefs lord mafter moft moſt muft muſt neceffary never obferved occafion paffages paffed paffions perfon perhaps play pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praife praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racters raiſed reafon rhyme ſay ſcenes ſeems Sempronius ſome ſtage Steele ſuch Syphax Tatler thefe theſe thofe thoſe thought tion tragedy tranflated uſe verfes verfion verſes Virgil Whig whofe whoſe write written