Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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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 ...
Page 300
... Dryden's gold for baser metal , of lower value though of greater bulk . In this , and in all his other essays on the same subject , the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems , nor a rude ...
... Dryden's gold for baser metal , of lower value though of greater bulk . In this , and in all his other essays on the same subject , the criticism of Dryden is the criticism of a poet ; not a dull collection of theorems , nor a rude ...
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