The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose, Volume 1Harper, 1847 |
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Page viii
... turn the blame from the poet to the audience , though it has been urged by his critics and by himself that those who live to please , must please to live . ' I wish that so heavy a charge had met with a better ex- culpation . Having ...
... turn the blame from the poet to the audience , though it has been urged by his critics and by himself that those who live to please , must please to live . ' I wish that so heavy a charge had met with a better ex- culpation . Having ...
Page xv
... turn . These lines , as Dr. Warton observes , were intended as a pay- ment in full for the bitter satire acted nine years before . Although this clever attack did not effectually banish heroic nonsense in rhyme from the stage , it gave ...
... turn . These lines , as Dr. Warton observes , were intended as a pay- ment in full for the bitter satire acted nine years before . Although this clever attack did not effectually banish heroic nonsense in rhyme from the stage , it gave ...
Page xxiv
... turn the odium of the crime on Ber- tram , because her affections were changed to another object , take all sympathy or attraction from her character , while the discovery that Elvira is the sister of Lorenzo , comes with a shock to our ...
... turn the odium of the crime on Ber- tram , because her affections were changed to another object , take all sympathy or attraction from her character , while the discovery that Elvira is the sister of Lorenzo , comes with a shock to our ...
Page xxix
... turn priest , since Reeve is turn'd nun . ' to holy orders . Against the Medal we find Por- dage again writing , in a poem called The Me- dal reversed , wrongly ascribed to Settle . The medal of John Bayes was given to Shadwell ; as ...
... turn priest , since Reeve is turn'd nun . ' to holy orders . Against the Medal we find Por- dage again writing , in a poem called The Me- dal reversed , wrongly ascribed to Settle . The medal of John Bayes was given to Shadwell ; as ...
Page xxxviii
... turns on the indulgence of that incestuous passion which I have ob- served and censured before ; and on which the ... turning out to be father and son , nor much soothed by the circumstance of their making him prisoner in his own ...
... turns on the indulgence of that incestuous passion which I have ob- served and censured before ; and on which the ... turning out to be father and son , nor much soothed by the circumstance of their making him prisoner in his own ...
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