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... opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX ; a poem on the happy Restoration and Return of his most facred · Majefty King Charles the Second . The The reproach of inconftancy was , on this occafion , 4 DRY DE N.
... opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX ; a poem on the happy Restoration and Return of his most facred · Majefty King Charles the Second . The The reproach of inconftancy was , on this occafion , 4 DRY DE N.
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... opinion of Charles the Se- cond , who had 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 ...
... opinion of Charles the Se- cond , who had 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 ...
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... opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animad- verfions ...
... opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animad- verfions ...
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... opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , self- love may easily deceive . He might have ob- ferved , that what is good only because it pleafes , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir ...
... opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , self- love may easily deceive . He might have ob- ferved , that what is good only because it pleafes , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir ...
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... opinion , as the author fays , of the beft judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he D. 4 finds finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment DRY D E N. 39.
... opinion , as the author fays , of the beft judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he D. 4 finds finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment DRY D E N. 39.
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