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Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us that he would not verfify it on account of its indecency . POPE however has omitted or foftened the groffer and more offenfive paffages . Chaucer afforded him many fubjects ...
Dryden , who is known not to be nicely scrupulous , informs us that he would not verfify it on account of its indecency . POPE however has omitted or foftened the groffer and more offenfive paffages . Chaucer afforded him many fubjects ...
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CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the oppofite opinions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous ...
CHAUCER is highly extolled by Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the oppofite opinions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous ...
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It is a circumftance 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 verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us ...
It is a circumftance 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 verfified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us ...
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THE tale to which this is the Prologue , has been verfified by Dryden ; and is fup* Ver . 671 , pofed posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance as is AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II.
THE tale to which this is the Prologue , has been verfified by Dryden ; and is fup* Ver . 671 , pofed posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance as is AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II.
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posed to have been of Chaucer's own contrivance as is alfo 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 alfo 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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