The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Том 1, Брой 1T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... sake of juxtaposition , is placed in the same volume with the Preface to the Second Miscellany , nearly the same topicks being discussed in both . The first edition of each piece has in general been ii ADVERTISEMENT .
... sake of juxtaposition , is placed in the same volume with the Preface to the Second Miscellany , nearly the same topicks being discussed in both . The first edition of each piece has in general been ii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... edition of each piece has in general been followed : but here also some deviation was neces- sary ; for on collating the second edition of the ESSAY OF DRAMATICK POESY printed in 1684 , with the first of 1668 , I found that the author ...
... edition of each piece has in general been followed : but here also some deviation was neces- sary ; for on collating the second edition of the ESSAY OF DRAMATICK POESY printed in 1684 , with the first of 1668 , I found that the author ...
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... edition of his works printed in 4to . in 1735 , ) gives the following account of it : " The tomb of Mr. Dryden was erected upon this hint by the Duke of Buckingham , to which was originally intended this epitaph : 46 This Sheffield rais ...
... edition of his works printed in 4to . in 1735 , ) gives the following account of it : " The tomb of Mr. Dryden was erected upon this hint by the Duke of Buckingham , to which was originally intended this epitaph : 46 This Sheffield rais ...
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... edition of them in that form . On the 20th of Jan. 1658-9 , Henry Herringman entered in the Stationers ' Register " a book called Three Poems to the happy Memory of the most renowned Oliver , late Protector ; by Mr. Mar- vell , Mr ...
... edition of them in that form . On the 20th of Jan. 1658-9 , Henry Herringman entered in the Stationers ' Register " a book called Three Poems to the happy Memory of the most renowned Oliver , late Protector ; by Mr. Mar- vell , Mr ...
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... edition . Dr. Johnson does not seem to have known that Dryden himself had published a list of his plays arranged in the order in which he wrote them . ' With the aid of this list , and the assistance furnished by the entries in the ...
... edition . Dr. Johnson does not seem to have known that Dryden himself had published a list of his plays arranged in the order in which he wrote them . ' With the aid of this list , and the assistance furnished by the entries in the ...
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Страница 145 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
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Страница 363 - Psalms ; whence you may find, that we don't think a poet worth Christian burial. The pomp of the ceremony was a kind of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras, than him; because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque : but he was an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary fashion ; for I do believe there was never such another burial seen. The oration, indeed, was great and ingenious, worthy the subject, and like the author; whose prescriptions can restore the living, and his pen embalm...
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Страница viii - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition.