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... satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley how little favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill success not with ...
... satire on the King's party . Mr. Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley how little favour had been shown him , he received the news of his ill success not with ...
Page 205
... satire , which , though neither so well pointed nor perhaps so well aimed , undoubtedly drew blood . One of these poems is called Dryden's Satire to his Muse , ascribed , though , as Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards ...
... satire , which , though neither so well pointed nor perhaps so well aimed , undoubtedly drew blood . One of these poems is called Dryden's Satire to his Muse , ascribed , though , as Pope says , falsely , to Somers , who was afterwards ...
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... satirical passages little understood . As it was by its nature a work of defiance , a composition which would ... satire . It is therefore , perhaps , possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those ...
... satirical passages little understood . As it was by its nature a work of defiance , a composition which would ... satire . It is therefore , perhaps , possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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