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Page xiii
... head , against our poet , but his bitterest accu- sations only come to this , that like all his predeces- sors he took his plots from Novels , Romances , Chronicles , and Histories , as he could best find them , and that he was ...
... head , against our poet , but his bitterest accu- sations only come to this , that like all his predeces- sors he took his plots from Novels , Romances , Chronicles , and Histories , as he could best find them , and that he was ...
Page xiv
John Dryden. egotism , place him at the head of all the heroes of romance . In this heroic kind of drama , the characters pass before us like moving pictures ; we no more sympathize with them , than with the allegorical figures of Rubens ...
John Dryden. egotism , place him at the head of all the heroes of romance . In this heroic kind of drama , the characters pass before us like moving pictures ; we no more sympathize with them , than with the allegorical figures of Rubens ...
Page xix
... head with bays . ' Loggan was the engraver . Scott thinks that these lines are Dryden's . See vol . xv . p . 244. The fron- tispiece to the play was curious , as exhibiting the façade of the theatre in Dorset Gardens . † See Scott's ed ...
... head with bays . ' Loggan was the engraver . Scott thinks that these lines are Dryden's . See vol . xv . p . 244. The fron- tispiece to the play was curious , as exhibiting the façade of the theatre in Dorset Gardens . † See Scott's ed ...
Page xliv
... head dus .'— Can this be the lady who had formerly held cap- tive in her chains the gallant Earl of Chesterfield ? In the preface to the Reasons for Mr. Bayes changing his Religion , ' considered in a dialogue between Crites , Eugenius ...
... head dus .'— Can this be the lady who had formerly held cap- tive in her chains the gallant Earl of Chesterfield ? In the preface to the Reasons for Mr. Bayes changing his Religion , ' considered in a dialogue between Crites , Eugenius ...
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... head : How justly from the church that crown is due , Preserv'd from ruin , and restor❜d by you ! The grateful choir their harmony employ , Not to make greater , but more solemn joy . Wrapt soft and warm your name is sent on high , As ...
... head : How justly from the church that crown is due , Preserv'd from ruin , and restor❜d by you ! The grateful choir their harmony employ , Not to make greater , but more solemn joy . Wrapt soft and warm your name is sent on high , As ...
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