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Page viii
... once so admired as to eclipse even Milton's fame , now found but few imitators . * Waller , and especially Denham , had looked back on Fairfax and our elder poets with ad- vantage , and had shown that a simpler and easier style , a more ...
... once so admired as to eclipse even Milton's fame , now found but few imitators . * Waller , and especially Denham , had looked back on Fairfax and our elder poets with ad- vantage , and had shown that a simpler and easier style , a more ...
Page viii
... once subside ; which had been sus- tained under perplexity of adventure , artifice of disguise , and variety of situation . Dryden has taken advantage of every form of ornament and every vehicle of expression which our language Cibber ...
... once subside ; which had been sus- tained under perplexity of adventure , artifice of disguise , and variety of situation . Dryden has taken advantage of every form of ornament and every vehicle of expression which our language Cibber ...
Page xiv
... once , and to one writer , unjust . Why was that one , Samuel Johnson ? + See P. Knight on Taste , p . 306 . Dryden's great success * and growing reputa- tion now called out the latent jealousy of his rivals into an open attack upon his ...
... once , and to one writer , unjust . Why was that one , Samuel Johnson ? + See P. Knight on Taste , p . 306 . Dryden's great success * and growing reputa- tion now called out the latent jealousy of his rivals into an open attack upon his ...
Page xv
... once received , the success of the Rehearsal was unbounded . Dry- den's Play of Marriage - a - la - Mode , was alluded to , though not acted nor printed till the subse- quent year , but it probably had been shown about , as was the ...
... once received , the success of the Rehearsal was unbounded . Dry- den's Play of Marriage - a - la - Mode , was alluded to , though not acted nor printed till the subse- quent year , but it probably had been shown about , as was the ...
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... once con- fessed in what the strength of Otway's genius consisted , In an anonymous satire , which appeared in 1678 , called An Allusion to the tenth Satire of Horace , ' Rochester again assailed Dryden's re- putation . Dryden alludes ...
... once con- fessed in what the strength of Otway's genius consisted , In an anonymous satire , which appeared in 1678 , called An Allusion to the tenth Satire of Horace , ' Rochester again assailed Dryden's re- putation . Dryden alludes ...
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