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Page 272
... Dryden , whom they suspected as the author , to be waylaid and beaten . This incident is mentioned by the duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Art of Poetry ; where he says of Dryden , Though prais'd and beaten for ...
... Dryden , whom they suspected as the author , to be waylaid and beaten . This incident is mentioned by the duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Art of Poetry ; where he says of Dryden , Though prais'd and beaten for ...
Page 283
... Dryden dying on the Wednesday morning , Dr. Thomas Sprat , then bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster , sent the next day to the lady Elizabeth Howard , Mr. Dryden's widow , that he would make a present of the ground , which was ...
... Dryden dying on the Wednesday morning , Dr. Thomas Sprat , then bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster , sent the next day to the lady Elizabeth Howard , Mr. Dryden's widow , that he would make a present of the ground , which was ...
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... Dryden himself has trans- lated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius , translated wholly by Dryden . This work , though like all the other productions of Dryden it may have shining ...
... Dryden himself has trans- lated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius , translated wholly by Dryden . This work , though like all the other productions of Dryden it may have shining ...
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