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Page 82
... Dryden * . Spenfer is faid to have made a poet of Cowley ; that Ogilby should give our author his first poetic pleasures , is a remarkable circumftance . On the first fight of Dryden he abandoned the reft , * I was informed by an ...
... Dryden * . Spenfer is faid to have made a poet of Cowley ; that Ogilby should give our author his first poetic pleasures , is a remarkable circumftance . On the first fight of Dryden he abandoned the reft , * I was informed by an ...
Page 156
... Dryden , on the fame fubject . More cannot be by mortal art express'd , But venerable age shall add the rest : For Time shall with his ready pencil stand , Retouch your figures with his ripening hand ; Mellow your colours , and imbrown ...
... Dryden , on the fame fubject . More cannot be by mortal art express'd , But venerable age shall add the rest : For Time shall with his ready pencil stand , Retouch your figures with his ripening hand ; Mellow your colours , and imbrown ...
Page 267
... Dryden ; who , notwithstanding , is so justly celebrated for this species of writing . The prologues of Dryden are fatyrical and facetious ; this of POPE is folemn and sublime , as the sub- ject required . Thofe of Dryden contain ...
... Dryden ; who , notwithstanding , is so justly celebrated for this species of writing . The prologues of Dryden are fatyrical and facetious ; this of POPE is folemn and sublime , as the sub- ject required . Thofe of Dryden contain ...
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