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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... judge of men , and the best master , has acknowledged the ease and benefit he receives in the incomes of his treasury , which you found not only disordered , but exhausted . All things were in the confusion of a chaos , without form or ...
... judge of men , and the best master , has acknowledged the ease and benefit he receives in the incomes of his treasury , which you found not only disordered , but exhausted . All things were in the confusion of a chaos , without form or ...
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... judge of poetry ; poets themselves are the most proper , though I conclude not the only criticks . But till some ... judges . But here again they are all indulgent to themselves ; and every one who believes himself a wit , that is ...
... judge of poetry ; poets themselves are the most proper , though I conclude not the only criticks . But till some ... judges . But here again they are all indulgent to themselves ; and every one who believes himself a wit , that is ...
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... judge of it : he must understand the excellencies of it too , or he will only prove a blind admirer , not a critick . From hence it comes that so many satires on poets , and censures of their writings , fly abroad . Men of pleasant ...
... judge of it : he must understand the excellencies of it too , or he will only prove a blind admirer , not a critick . From hence it comes that so many satires on poets , and censures of their writings , fly abroad . Men of pleasant ...
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... judge of the twelve - penny gallery , this legitimate son of Sternhold , than that he would subscribe his name to his censure , or ( not to tax him beyond his learning , ) set his mark ; for should he own himself publickly , and come ...
... judge of the twelve - penny gallery , this legitimate son of Sternhold , than that he would subscribe his name to his censure , or ( not to tax him beyond his learning , ) set his mark ; for should he own himself publickly , and come ...
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... judges . It remains that I acquaint the reader , that I have endeavoured in this play to follow the prac- tice of the ancients , who , as Mr. Rymer has judiciously observed , are and ought to be our Horace likewise gives it for a rule ...
... judges . It remains that I acquaint the reader , that I have endeavoured in this play to follow the prac- tice of the ancients , who , as Mr. Rymer has judiciously observed , are and ought to be our Horace likewise gives it for a rule ...
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