“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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Page 23
... Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is very ...
... Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is very ...
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... Dryden to D'Urfey . His onset was violent ; those passages , which , while they stood single had passed with little ... Dryden's conscience , or his prudence , angry as he was , with- held him from the conflict : Congreve and ...
... Dryden to D'Urfey . His onset was violent ; those passages , which , while they stood single had passed with little ... Dryden's conscience , or his prudence , angry as he was , with- held him from the conflict : Congreve and ...
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... Dryden . The concluding verses are these : This said , no more remain'd . Th ' ethereal host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompass'd all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And ...
... Dryden . The concluding verses are these : This said , no more remain'd . Th ' ethereal host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompass'd all the mingled mass of seas and lands ; And ...
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... Dryden's Ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expression might be mended ; and the most striking part of the character had been already shewn in ...
... Dryden's Ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expression might be mended ; and the most striking part of the character had been already shewn in ...
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... Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed ad- versary . He had besides given them reason for ... Dryden's impurities , but praised his powers ; though in a subsequent edition he retained the satire and ...
... Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed ad- versary . He had besides given them reason for ... Dryden's impurities , but praised his powers ; though in a subsequent edition he retained the satire and ...
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