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Page 204
... Dryden , whom they suspected as the author , to be [ 18th Dec. , 1679 ] waylaid and beaten . This incident is mentioned by the Duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Essay on Poetry , where he says of Dryden : Though prais ...
... Dryden , whom they suspected as the author , to be [ 18th Dec. , 1679 ] waylaid and beaten . This incident is mentioned by the Duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Essay on Poetry , where he says of Dryden : Though prais ...
Page 210
... Dryden to rouse his ima- gination , and strain his voice . Happy days were at hand , and he was willing to enjoy and diffuse the anticipated blessings . He published a poem filled with predictions of greatness and prosperity ...
... Dryden to rouse his ima- gination , and strain his voice . Happy days were at hand , and he was willing to enjoy and diffuse the anticipated blessings . He published a poem filled with predictions of greatness and prosperity ...
Page 223
... Dryden had been preserved , except the following papers : -- I do hereby promise to pay John Dryden , Esq . , or order , on the 25th of March , 1699 , the sum of two hundred and fifty guineas , in consideration of ten thousand verses ...
... Dryden had been preserved , except the following papers : -- I do hereby promise to pay John Dryden , Esq . , or order , on the 25th of March , 1699 , the sum of two hundred and fifty guineas , in consideration of ten thousand verses ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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