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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... supposed that his skill in the ancient languages was deficient , compared with that of common students ; but his scholastick acquisitions seem not proportionate to his opportunities and abilities . He could not , like Milton or Cowley ...
... supposed that his skill in the ancient languages was deficient , compared with that of common students ; but his scholastick acquisitions seem not proportionate to his opportunities and abilities . He could not , like Milton or Cowley ...
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... supposed , on no satisfactory evi- 4 examining Parish - Registers , Tombstones , or Wills , the documents in the Herald's - Office , or the Inquisitions post mortem in the Chapel of the Rolls , is , we are told , an in- vasion of the ...
... supposed , on no satisfactory evi- 4 examining Parish - Registers , Tombstones , or Wills , the documents in the Herald's - Office , or the Inquisitions post mortem in the Chapel of the Rolls , is , we are told , an in- vasion of the ...
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... supposed him to have been born at Tichmarsh , where Sir Gilbert Pickering had an ancient seat , and where Erasmus Driden resided consequence of his connexion with a branch of that house . in The stock of the family of Driden was in the ...
... supposed him to have been born at Tichmarsh , where Sir Gilbert Pickering had an ancient seat , and where Erasmus Driden resided consequence of his connexion with a branch of that house . in The stock of the family of Driden was in the ...
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... supposed , in consequence of Antony Wood having denominated 4 Register of Tichmarsh : for the examination of which I am indebted to the Rev. Mr. Powys , who , after a very troublesome search , discovered the entry above re- ferred to ...
... supposed , in consequence of Antony Wood having denominated 4 Register of Tichmarsh : for the examination of which I am indebted to the Rev. Mr. Powys , who , after a very troublesome search , discovered the entry above re- ferred to ...
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... supposed to have been Thomas Shadwell , observes in a note , that at the Universities , noblemen's sons are called noblemen . Granting for a moment that this improbable story was true , it is not very easy to discover on what ground our ...
... supposed to have been Thomas Shadwell , observes in a note , that at the Universities , noblemen's sons are called noblemen . Granting for a moment that this improbable story was true , it is not very easy to discover on what ground our ...
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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.
Страница x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying; them.
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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.