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Page 242
... effect of diligence , and added facility to exactness . Rhyme has been so long banished from the theatre , that we know not its effects upon the passions of an audience ; but it has this convenience , that sentences stand more ...
... effect of diligence , and added facility to exactness . Rhyme has been so long banished from the theatre , that we know not its effects upon the passions of an audience ; but it has this convenience , that sentences stand more ...
Page 255
... effect : the crown therefore could not reasonably be divided . In a general survey of Dryden's labours , he appears to have a mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge . His compositions are the effects ...
... effect : the crown therefore could not reasonably be divided . In a general survey of Dryden's labours , he appears to have a mind very comprehensive by nature , and much enriched with acquired knowledge . His compositions are the effects ...
Page 329
... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A ...
... effect of his civility rather than approbation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language : The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barometer ; and A ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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