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Page 225
... knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestic manners of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet . Dryden may be properly considered as the father of ...
... knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestic manners of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet . Dryden may be properly considered as the father of ...
Page 229
... knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation , by a quick apprehension , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digestion ; by vigilance that ...
... knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation , by a quick apprehension , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digestion ; by vigilance that ...
Page 366
... knowledge which now circulates in common talk , was in his time rarely to be found . Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and , in the female world , any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be ...
... knowledge which now circulates in common talk , was in his time rarely to be found . Men not professing learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and , in the female world , any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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