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... Dryden , whom they suspected as the author , to be [ 18th Dec. , 1679 ] waylaid and beaten . This incident is mentioned by the Duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Essay on Poetry , where he says of Dryden : Though prais ...
... Dryden , whom they suspected as the author , to be [ 18th Dec. , 1679 ] waylaid and beaten . This incident is mentioned by the Duke of Bucking- hamshire , the true writer , in his Essay on Poetry , where he says of Dryden : Though prais ...
Page 155
... Dryden had been preserved , except the following papers : -- I do hereby promise to pay John Dryden , Esq . , or order , on the 25th of March , 1699 , the sum of two hundred and fifty guineas , in consideration of ten thousand verses ...
... Dryden had been preserved , except the following papers : -- I do hereby promise to pay John Dryden , Esq . , or order , on the 25th of March , 1699 , the sum of two hundred and fifty guineas , in consideration of ten thousand verses ...
Page 386
... Dryden ; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope . In acquired knowledge , the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastic , and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for ...
... Dryden ; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope . In acquired knowledge , the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastic , and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for ...
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