The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pages |
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... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last ...
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight , now all rest : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their last ...
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... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
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... Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream My great example , as it is my theme ! Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet ...
... Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream My great example , as it is my theme ! Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet ...
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... not seem to be always copied from original form , nor to have the freshness , raciness , and energy of im- * Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimità Miltoniana . mediate observation . He saw Nature , as Dryden expresses MILTON . 109.
... not seem to be always copied from original form , nor to have the freshness , raciness , and energy of im- * Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimità Miltoniana . mediate observation . He saw Nature , as Dryden expresses MILTON . 109.
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... Dryden , who regrets that the heroic measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and his opi- nions immature . When he wished to ...
... Dryden , who regrets that the heroic measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and his opi- nions immature . When he wished to ...
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