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Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us that he would not versify it on account of its indecency . Pope however has omitted or softened the grofler and more offensive passages . Chaucer afforded him many subjects ...
Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us that he would not versify it on account of its indecency . Pope however has omitted or softened the grofler and more offensive passages . Chaucer afforded him many subjects ...
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CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the spirited and pleasing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleasing , notwithstanding the opposite opinions they contain , because his prose is the most numerous ...
CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the spirited and pleasing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleasing , notwithstanding the opposite opinions they contain , because his prose is the most numerous ...
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It is a circumstance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he versified it . The lines of Pope , in the piece before us ...
It is a circumstance of literary history worth mentioning , that Chaucer was more than 60 years old when he wrote Palamon and Arcite , as we know Dryden was 70 , when he versified it . The lines of Pope , in the piece before us ...
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The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been versified by Dryden ; and is sup• Ver . 671 , posed posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 11.
The tale to which this is the Prologue , has been versified by Dryden ; and is sup• Ver . 671 , posed posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 11.
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posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as is also the elegant Vision of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * ...
posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance : as is also the elegant Vision of the flower and the leaf , which has received new graces from the spirited and harmonious Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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