The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 95
... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Cal- vinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians , to have ...
... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Cal- vinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians , to have ...
Page 110
Samuel Johnson. " " mediate observation . He saw Nature , as Dryden expresses it , " through the spectacles of books ; and on most occasions calls learning to his assistance . The garden of Eden brings to his mind the vale of Enna ...
Samuel Johnson. " " mediate observation . He saw Nature , as Dryden expresses it , " through the spectacles of books ; and on most occasions calls learning to his assistance . The garden of Eden brings to his mind the vale of Enna ...
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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 opi- nions immature . When he wished to ...
... 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 opi- nions immature . When he wished to ...
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... Dryden writes thus in his preface to his " Miscel- lanies : " " It was my Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Translated Verse , ' " says Dryden , " which made me uneasy , till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules , and of ...
... Dryden writes thus in his preface to his " Miscel- lanies : " " It was my Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Translated Verse , ' " says Dryden , " which made me uneasy , till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules , and of ...
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... Dryden . In return , succeeding poets have borrowed from Roscommon . In the verses on the Lap - dog , the pronouns thou and you are offensively confounded ; and the turn at the end is from Waller . His versions of the two odes of Horace ...
... Dryden . In return , succeeding poets have borrowed from Roscommon . In the verses on the Lap - dog , the pronouns thou and you are offensively confounded ; and the turn at the end is from Waller . His versions of the two odes of Horace ...
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