Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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Page 259
... considered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to distribute copiously as occasions arose . By these dissertations the publick judge- ment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who conversed with Dryden ...
... considered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to distribute copiously as occasions arose . By these dissertations the publick judge- ment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who conversed with Dryden ...
Page 295
... considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously ...
... considered as owing its establishment to Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savage- ness . The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously ...
Page 446
... considered as a critick ; a name which the present generation is scarcely willing to allow him . His criticism is condemned as tentative or experi- mental , rather than scientifick , and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than ...
... considered as a critick ; a name which the present generation is scarcely willing to allow him . His criticism is condemned as tentative or experi- mental , rather than scientifick , and he is considered as deciding by taste rather than ...
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