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... Dryden : his Conversion 386 Dryden : Dramatic Immorality 387 Dryden : Criticism 389 Dryden's Virgil 391 Dryden : his Violence of Wit 392 Edmund Smith : Character of Gilbert Walmsley 393 xiv 1779-81 Charles Montagu Earl of Halifax : The ...
... Dryden : his Conversion 386 Dryden : Dramatic Immorality 387 Dryden : Criticism 389 Dryden's Virgil 391 Dryden : his Violence of Wit 392 Edmund Smith : Character of Gilbert Walmsley 393 xiv 1779-81 Charles Montagu Earl of Halifax : The ...
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... Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savageness . Dryden's Virgil Life of Dryden Not long afterwards he undertook perhaps the most arduous work of its kind , a ...
... Dryden ; from whose time it is apparent that English poetry has had no tendency to relapse to its former savageness . Dryden's Virgil Life of Dryden Not long afterwards he undertook perhaps the most arduous work of its kind , a ...
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... Dryden . It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little , because Dryden had more , for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that if he has brighter ...
... Dryden . It is not to be inferred that of this poetical vigour Pope had only a little , because Dryden had more , for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that if he has brighter ...
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