The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 4Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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... Dryden frequented , and pleased himself with having feen him . Dryden died May 1 , 1701 , fome days before Pope was twelve , fo early muft he therefore have felt the power of harmony , and the zeal of genius . Who does not with that ...
... Dryden frequented , and pleased himself with having feen him . Dryden died May 1 , 1701 , fome days before Pope was twelve , fo early muft he therefore have felt the power of harmony , and the zeal of genius . Who does not with that ...
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... Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long publifhed , and were much in the hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own kill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appear- ance , and put " January and May , " and the ...
... Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long publifhed , and were much in the hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own kill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appear- ance , and put " January and May , " and the ...
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... Dryden had , when he lived , been accuf- tomed to prefide . During this period of his life he was indefati- gably diligent , and infatiably curious ; wanting health for violent , and money for expenûve plea- fures ; and having excited ...
... Dryden had , when he lived , been accuf- tomed to prefide . During this period of his life he was indefati- gably diligent , and infatiably curious ; wanting health for violent , and money for expenûve plea- fures ; and having excited ...
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... Dryden's " Virgil * ; " and it had been tried again with great fuccefs when the Tatlers " were collected into volumes . There was reafon to believe that Pope's attempt would be fuccefsful . He was in the full bloom of reputation , and ...
... Dryden's " Virgil * ; " and it had been tried again with great fuccefs when the Tatlers " were collected into volumes . There was reafon to believe that Pope's attempt would be fuccefsful . He was in the full bloom of reputation , and ...
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... DRYDEN . ] Of thefe lines , and of the whole first book , I am told that there was yet a former copy , more varied , and more deformed with interlineations . The beginning of the fecond book varies very little from the printed page ...
... DRYDEN . ] Of thefe lines , and of the whole first book , I am told that there was yet a former copy , more varied , and more deformed with interlineations . The beginning of the fecond book varies very little from the printed page ...
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