An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Dryden , who is known not to be nicely fcrupulous , 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 ...
... Dryden , who is known not to be nicely fcrupulous , 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 ...
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... Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the opposite opi- nions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous and fweet , the most mellow ...
... Dryden , in the fpirited and pleafing preface to his Fables ; for his prefaces , after all , are very pleafing , notwithstanding the opposite opi- nions they contain , because his profe is the most numerous and fweet , the most mellow ...
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... Dryden was 70 , when he versified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us , are fpirited and eafy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the ...
... Dryden was 70 , when he versified it . The lines of POPE , in the piece before us , are fpirited and eafy , and have , properly enough , a free colloquial air . One paffage , I cannot forbear quoting , as it acquaints us with the ...
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... prefent magnificent royal library at Paris . 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 con- trivance as AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II.
... prefent magnificent royal library at Paris . 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 con- trivance as AND WRITINGS OF POPE . II.
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... Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them , particularly , to Palamon and Arcite , Sigif- munda and Guifcardo , Theodore and Ho- noria ; and above all , to his ...
... Dryden . It is to his fables , though wrote in his old age * , that Dryden will owe his immortality , and among them , particularly , to Palamon and Arcite , Sigif- munda and Guifcardo , Theodore and Ho- noria ; and above all , to his ...
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