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... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promiffa parenti , Cautius ut fævo velles te credere Marti . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine poffet . Primitiæ juvenis miferæ , bellique propinqui ...
... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promiffa parenti , Cautius ut fævo velles te credere Marti . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine poffet . Primitiæ juvenis miferæ , bellique propinqui ...
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... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley how little * 1663 • + Here is an error in the defignation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page ...
... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley how little * 1663 • + Here is an error in the defignation of this comedy , which our author copied from the title - page ...
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... Dryden confeffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they furpafs him in poetry . If Wit be well defcribed by Pope , as being " that which has been often thought , " but A " but ...
... Dryden confeffes of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they furpafs him in poetry . If Wit be well defcribed by Pope , as being " that which has been often thought , " but A " but ...
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... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when the labourers have Such reft in bed , that their laft ...
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seeft me here at midnight , now all reft : Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when the labourers have Such reft in bed , that their laft ...
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... fuch a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The 1 The verfes to Davenant , which are vigo- rously begun COWLEY . 59.
... fuch a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have sup- plied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The 1 The verfes to Davenant , which are vigo- rously begun COWLEY . 59.
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