The Works of the English Poets: DrydenH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... fuch applause on a theatre which you under- ftood fo well . If I defigned this for a poetical encomium , it were eafy to enlarge on fo copious a fubject ; but , confining myself to the severity of truth , and to what is becom- ing me to ...
... fuch applause on a theatre which you under- ftood fo well . If I defigned this for a poetical encomium , it were eafy to enlarge on fo copious a fubject ; but , confining myself to the severity of truth , and to what is becom- ing me to ...
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... fuch fables , both ancient and modern , as contain in each of them fome instructive moral , which I could prove by in- duction , but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into fight , without the reader's trouble of looking after ...
... fuch fables , both ancient and modern , as contain in each of them fome instructive moral , which I could prove by in- duction , but the way is tedious ; and they leap foremost into fight , without the reader's trouble of looking after ...
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... fuch and fuch occafions . The vulgar judges , which are nine parts in ten of all nations , who call conceits and jingles wit , who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for ...
... fuch and fuch occafions . The vulgar judges , which are nine parts in ten of all nations , who call conceits and jingles wit , who fee Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether without them , will think me little lefs than mad , for ...
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... fuch expreffions , poured on the neck of one another , and fignifying all the fame thing ? If this were wit , was this a time to be witty , when the poor wretch was in the agony of death ! This is juft John Lit- tlewit in Bartholemew ...
... fuch expreffions , poured on the neck of one another , and fignifying all the fame thing ? If this were wit , was this a time to be witty , when the poor wretch was in the agony of death ! This is juft John Lit- tlewit in Bartholemew ...
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... fuch as are more easily to be found than the good parson ; such as have given the last blow to Christianity in this age , by a practice so con- trary to their doctrine . But this will keep cold till another time . In the mean while , I ...
... fuch as are more easily to be found than the good parson ; such as have given the last blow to Christianity in this age , by a practice so con- trary to their doctrine . But this will keep cold till another time . In the mean while , I ...
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