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... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Pålla , dederas promissa parenți , Cautius ut sævo velles te credere Marti . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in ar- mis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiæ juvenis miseræ , bellique ...
... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Pålla , dederas promissa parenți , Cautius ut sævo velles te credere Marti . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in ar- mis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiæ juvenis miseræ , bellique ...
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... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope , as being " that which has been often thought , but was never ...
... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains , that they surpass him in poetry . If wit be well described by Pope , as being " that which has been often thought , but was never ...
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... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : کی " I ཻ་ T 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 ...
... Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : کی " I ཻ་ T 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 ...
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... Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gayety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorous- ly begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and hap- pily expressed . Cowley's ...
... Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gayety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorous- ly begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and hap- pily expressed . Cowley's ...
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... Dryden , in " Mack Fleck - ferent from all other scenes of human action , noe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I recol . lect much other notice from its publication till now in the whole succession of English litera- ture . I to ...
... Dryden , in " Mack Fleck - ferent from all other scenes of human action , noe , " it has once been imitated ; nor do I recol . lect much other notice from its publication till now in the whole succession of English litera- ture . I to ...
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