The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volumen2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... Roman , and the other a queen , they were both women . It is true , some actions , though natural , are not fit to be represented , and broad obscenities in words ought in good manners to be avoided ; expressions therefore are a modest ...
... Roman , and the other a queen , they were both women . It is true , some actions , though natural , are not fit to be represented , and broad obscenities in words ought in good manners to be avoided ; expressions therefore are a modest ...
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... Romans , have written on the same subject , though their poems are wholly lost ; but Seneca's is still preserved . In our own age , Corneille has attempted it , and it appears by his Preface , with great success ; but a judicious reader ...
... Romans , have written on the same subject , though their poems are wholly lost ; but Seneca's is still preserved . In our own age , Corneille has attempted it , and it appears by his Preface , with great success ; but a judicious reader ...
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... Roman was absolutely at cold hunting . All we could gather out of Cor- neille was , that an episode must be , but not his way ; and Seneca supplied us with no new hint , but only a relation which he makes of his Tiresias raising the ...
... Roman was absolutely at cold hunting . All we could gather out of Cor- neille was , that an episode must be , but not his way ; and Seneca supplied us with no new hint , but only a relation which he makes of his Tiresias raising the ...
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... Roman stock ; ours has the disadvantage to be founded on the Dutch . We are full of monosyllables , and those clogged with consonants ; and our pronunciation is effe- minate all which are enemies to a sounding . language . It is true ...
... Roman stock ; ours has the disadvantage to be founded on the Dutch . We are full of monosyllables , and those clogged with consonants ; and our pronunciation is effe- minate all which are enemies to a sounding . language . It is true ...
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... a 7 * Our author had not yet become a Roman Catholick ; and Lord Haughton , to whom this address is made , was a strenuous opponent of the Duke of York . Protestant patron , as I do myself an honour , THE SPANISH FRYAR . 61.
... a 7 * Our author had not yet become a Roman Catholick ; and Lord Haughton , to whom this address is made , was a strenuous opponent of the Duke of York . Protestant patron , as I do myself an honour , THE SPANISH FRYAR . 61.
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