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... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years 3. I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology will publish it , but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous ...
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years 3. I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology will publish it , but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous ...
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... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology will publish it , but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous ...
... Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the best authority for his plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology will publish it , but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous ...
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... Dryden , looked upon Chaucer as a dry old- fashioned wit , not worth reviving . Having read him over at the Earl of Leicester's request , he declared he had no taste of him . ' Dryden's Works , xi . 232 . 5'Every age has a kind of ...
... Dryden , looked upon Chaucer as a dry old- fashioned wit , not worth reviving . Having read him over at the Earl of Leicester's request , he declared he had no taste of him . ' Dryden's Works , xi . 232 . 5'Every age has a kind of ...
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... Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : - ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way , but swept , like a drag - net , great and small .... For this reason , though he ...
... Dryden wrote of him in 1699 : - ' One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forego any conceit which came in his way , but swept , like a drag - net , great and small .... For this reason , though he ...
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... Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their ...
... Dryden's Night is well known * ; Donne's is as follows : ' Thou seest me here at midnight ; now all rest , Time's dead low - water ; when all minds divest To - morrow's business ; when the labourers have Such rest in bed , that their ...
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