The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose, Volume 1Harper, 1847 |
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Page viii
... English couplet , as no succeeding poets have ever excelled , and even Pope himself scarcely hoped to rival : And , making heaven thy aim , hast had the grace To look the sun of Righteousness i ' th ' face , What may we hope , if thou ...
... English couplet , as no succeeding poets have ever excelled , and even Pope himself scarcely hoped to rival : And , making heaven thy aim , hast had the grace To look the sun of Righteousness i ' th ' face , What may we hope , if thou ...
Page viii
... English Numbers , ' he says , he mentions him for honour's sake ; and that he is desirous on all occasions of laying hold on his memory ; and thereby acknow . ledging to the world , that unless he had written , none of us could write ...
... English Numbers , ' he says , he mentions him for honour's sake ; and that he is desirous on all occasions of laying hold on his memory ; and thereby acknow . ledging to the world , that unless he had written , none of us could write ...
Page ix
... English poets from the censure of those who unjustly preferred the French before them , ' -the admiration of Jonson's talents among Dryden's contemporaries had eclipsed , or lower- ed disadvantageously the greater genius or Shakspeare ...
... English poets from the censure of those who unjustly preferred the French before them , ' -the admiration of Jonson's talents among Dryden's contemporaries had eclipsed , or lower- ed disadvantageously the greater genius or Shakspeare ...
Page x
... English dramatists are wrought with great spirit and diligence . The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpe- tual model of encomiastic criticism ; exact without minuteness , and lofty without exagge- ration . The praise lavished by ...
... English dramatists are wrought with great spirit and diligence . The account of Shakspeare may stand as a perpe- tual model of encomiastic criticism ; exact without minuteness , and lofty without exagge- ration . The praise lavished by ...
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... English customs , proves its foreign origin . L'Amant Indiscrêt of Quinault has been used for that portion of the plot , which occasioned its being called the ' Feigned Innocence , ' and which of course is not part of Molière's play ...
... English customs , proves its foreign origin . L'Amant Indiscrêt of Quinault has been used for that portion of the plot , which occasioned its being called the ' Feigned Innocence , ' and which of course is not part of Molière's play ...
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