The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa parenti , Cautius ut sævo velles te credere Marti . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiæ juvenis miseræ , bellique propinqui ...
... DRYDEN . Non hæc , O Palla , dederas promissa parenti , Cautius ut sævo velles te credere Marti . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiæ juvenis miseræ , bellique propinqui ...
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... Dryden bor- rowed the practice , whether ornamental or licen- tious . He considered the verse of twelve sylla- bles as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme ...
... Dryden bor- rowed the practice , whether ornamental or licen- tious . He considered the verse of twelve sylla- bles as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme ...
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... Dryden , who regrets that the heroic measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and his opinions immature . When he wished to change ...
... Dryden , who regrets that the heroic measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden the highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and his opinions immature . When he wished to change ...
Page 189
... Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his " Essay on Translated Verse ; " of which Dryden writes thus in his pre . face to his " Miscellanies : " - " It was my Lord Roscommon's ' Essay ...
... Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his " Essay on Translated Verse ; " of which Dryden writes thus in his pre . face to his " Miscellanies : " - " It was my Lord Roscommon's ' Essay ...
Page 190
... Dryden will , I am afraid , be found little more than one of those cursory civili . ties which one author pays to another ; for when the sum of Lord Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can ...
... Dryden will , I am afraid , be found little more than one of those cursory civili . ties which one author pays to another ; for when the sum of Lord Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can ...
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