Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... Dryden ; the cant words which are so often in his mouth may be supposed to have been Dryden's habitual phrases , or customary exclamations . Bayes , when he is to write , is blooded and purged : this , as Lamotte relates himself to have ...
... Dryden ; the cant words which are so often in his mouth may be supposed to have been Dryden's habitual phrases , or customary exclamations . Bayes , when he is to write , is blooded and purged : this , as Lamotte relates himself to have ...
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... Dryden under the name of Doeg , in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel , and was perhaps for his factious ... Dryden's genius was commonly excited by some personal regard , he rarely writes upon a general topick . Soon after the ...
... Dryden under the name of Doeg , in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel , and was perhaps for his factious ... Dryden's genius was commonly excited by some personal regard , he rarely writes upon a general topick . Soon after the ...
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... Dryden . ' ' I say , received by me ' John Dryden . Two hundred and fifty guineas , at 1l . 1s 6d . is 2681. 15s . It is manifest from the dates of this contract , that it relates to the volume of Fables , which contains about twelve ...
... Dryden . ' ' I say , received by me ' John Dryden . Two hundred and fifty guineas , at 1l . 1s 6d . is 2681. 15s . It is manifest from the dates of this contract , that it relates to the volume of Fables , which contains about twelve ...
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