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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... manners to be avoided ; expressions therefore are a modest cloth- ing of our thoughts , as breeches and petticoats are of our bodies . If I have kept myself within the bounds of modesty , all beyond it is but nicety and affectation ...
... manners to be avoided ; expressions therefore are a modest cloth- ing of our thoughts , as breeches and petticoats are of our bodies . If I have kept myself within the bounds of modesty , all beyond it is but nicety and affectation ...
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... manners make you sleep . They are so careful not to exasperate a critick , that they never leave him any work ; so busy with the broom , and make so clean a riddance , that there is little left either for censure or for praise for no ...
... manners make you sleep . They are so careful not to exasperate a critick , that they never leave him any work ; so busy with the broom , and make so clean a riddance , that there is little left either for censure or for praise for no ...
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... manners with a vengeance ; and the audience is like to be much concerned at the misfortunes of this admirable hero . But take Hippolitus out of his poetick fit , and I suppose he would think it a wiser part to set the saddle on the ...
... manners with a vengeance ; and the audience is like to be much concerned at the misfortunes of this admirable hero . But take Hippolitus out of his poetick fit , and I suppose he would think it a wiser part to set the saddle on the ...
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... manners ; and after he was put to death for overcoming Nero , the emperor carried it without dispute for the best poet in his dominions : no man was ambitious of that grinning honour ; for if he heard the mali- cious trumpeter ...
... manners ; and after he was put to death for overcoming Nero , the emperor carried it without dispute for the best poet in his dominions : no man was ambitious of that grinning honour ; for if he heard the mali- cious trumpeter ...
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... manner he has left no praise for any who come after him . The occasion is fair , and the subject would be pleasant to handle the difference of style betwixt him and Fletcher ; and wherein , and how far , they are both to be imitated ...
... manner he has left no praise for any who come after him . The occasion is fair , and the subject would be pleasant to handle the difference of style betwixt him and Fletcher ; and wherein , and how far , they are both to be imitated ...
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