The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... Dryden ; and foon afterwards published a tranflation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees ; after which , fays says Dryden , my latter fwarm is hardly worth the ADDISON .
... Dryden ; and foon afterwards published a tranflation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgick upon Bees ; after which , fays says Dryden , my latter fwarm is hardly worth the ADDISON .
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And a Criticism of Their Works Samuel Johnson. says Dryden , my latter fwarm is hardly worth the biving . About the fame time he compofed the argu- ments prefixed to the feveral books of Dryden's Virgil , and produced an Effay on the ...
And a Criticism of Their Works Samuel Johnson. says Dryden , my latter fwarm is hardly worth the biving . About the fame time he compofed the argu- ments prefixed to the feveral books of Dryden's Virgil , and produced an Effay on the ...
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... Dryden . By the influence of Mr. Montague , con- curring , according to Tickell , with his natu- ral modefty , he was diverted from his origi- nal design of entering into holy orders . Mon- tague alleged the corruption of men who ...
... Dryden . By the influence of Mr. Montague , con- curring , according to Tickell , with his natu- ral modefty , he was diverted from his origi- nal design of entering into holy orders . Mon- tague alleged the corruption of men who ...
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... Dryden , whom Pope and Congreve de- fended against them . There is no reason to doubt that he suffered too much pain from the prevalence of Pope's poetical reputation ; nor is it without strong reason suspected that by fome difingenuous ...
... Dryden , whom Pope and Congreve de- fended against them . There is no reason to doubt that he suffered too much pain from the prevalence of Pope's poetical reputation ; nor is it without strong reason suspected that by fome difingenuous ...
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... Dryden's Virgil . Of the next couplet , the firft verfe being includ- ed in the second , is therefore useless ; and in the third Discord is made to produce Strife . Of the course of Addison's familiar day * , before his marriage , Pope ...
... Dryden's Virgil . Of the next couplet , the firft verfe being includ- ed in the second , is therefore useless ; and in the third Discord is made to produce Strife . Of the course of Addison's familiar day * , before his marriage , Pope ...
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