The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose, Volume 1Harper, 1847 |
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Page viii
... give no promise of the correct ear , or command of language , that was hereafter to give such har mony and variety to the English couplet , as no succeeding poets have ever excelled , and even Pope himself scarcely hoped to rival : And ...
... give no promise of the correct ear , or command of language , that was hereafter to give such har mony and variety to the English couplet , as no succeeding poets have ever excelled , and even Pope himself scarcely hoped to rival : And ...
Page ix
... give the fop ungrateful world its will . He ( Shadwell ) wears the laurel - thou deservedst it still . Still smooth as when adorn'd with youthful pride , For thy dear sake the blushing virgins died . " When the kind gods of wit and love ...
... give the fop ungrateful world its will . He ( Shadwell ) wears the laurel - thou deservedst it still . Still smooth as when adorn'd with youthful pride , For thy dear sake the blushing virgins died . " When the kind gods of wit and love ...
Page xxvii
... give him credit for the truth of the portrait in its harsher features . It is re- markable that the only considerable additions made to the poem , after the first edition , have a tendency rather to mollify than to sharpen the satire ...
... give him credit for the truth of the portrait in its harsher features . It is re- markable that the only considerable additions made to the poem , after the first edition , have a tendency rather to mollify than to sharpen the satire ...
Page xxx
... give this eulogy to the ' Religio Laici ' in nearly the same words . My friend who admired Dryden even to excess , said that he attained his excellence in versification by study and practice . thor . The first volume was published in ...
... give this eulogy to the ' Religio Laici ' in nearly the same words . My friend who admired Dryden even to excess , said that he attained his excellence in versification by study and practice . thor . The first volume was published in ...
Page xxxvi
... gives no emphatic imitation of real individual character , no strong representation of powerful feeling ; the perfume ... give to Epic narrative . Arthur would have remind- ed us of Achilles , and the sameness of a copy would have been ...
... gives no emphatic imitation of real individual character , no strong representation of powerful feeling ; the perfume ... give to Epic narrative . Arthur would have remind- ed us of Achilles , and the sameness of a copy would have been ...
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