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... Charles I. and Lord Falkland being in the Bodleian Library , made this ... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa parenti , Cautius ut sævo ... DRYDEN . Hoffman , in his Lexicon , gives a very satisfactory account of this practice ...
... Charles I. and Lord Falkland being in the Bodleian Library , made this ... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa parenti , Cautius ut sævo ... DRYDEN . Hoffman , in his Lexicon , gives a very satisfactory account of this practice ...
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... Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Sa- voy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood , " by certain persons ... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " That , when they told Cowley ...
... Charles the First and Second , the mastership of the Sa- voy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood , " by certain persons ... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " That , when they told Cowley ...
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... Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind hir a better man in England . " He is represented by Dr ... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they ...
... Charles pronounced , " That Mr. Cowley had not left behind hir a better man in England . " He is represented by Dr ... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they ...
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... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his " Essay on Translated They were published , together with those of Duke , in an octavo volume , in 1717. The editor ...
... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his " Essay on Translated They were published , together with those of Duke , in an octavo volume , in 1717. The editor ...
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Samuel Johnson. Verse ; " of which Dryden writes thus in his not less praise than ... Dryden , " which made me uneasy , till I tried whether or no I was capable ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she ...
Samuel Johnson. Verse ; " of which Dryden writes thus in his not less praise than ... Dryden , " which made me uneasy , till I tried whether or no I was capable ... Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she ...
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