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... Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludicrous , didactic , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with al- most all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasion " a ...
... Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludicrous , didactic , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with al- most all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasion " a ...
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... Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : Lw us bid vedenie STE BISCI O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream TM My great example , as it is my theme ! Though deep ...
... Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : Lw us bid vedenie STE BISCI O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream TM My great example , as it is my theme ! Though deep ...
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... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . : His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; 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 Calvinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians , to have ...
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... Dryden expresses it , " through the spectacles of Books ; " and on most occasions calls learning to • Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimita Miltoni- una.-Dr. J. his mind the vale of Enna , where Proserpine was gathering flowers ...
... Dryden expresses it , " through the spectacles of Books ; " and on most occasions calls learning to • Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimita Miltoni- una.-Dr. J. his mind the vale of Enna , where Proserpine was gathering flowers ...
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... Dryden remarks , that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say that all the parts are not equal . In every work one part must be for the sake of others ; a palace must have passages ; a poem must have transi ...
... Dryden remarks , that Milton has some flats among his elevations . This is only to say that all the parts are not equal . In every work one part must be for the sake of others ; a palace must have passages ; a poem must have transi ...
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