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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... poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are often in danger of your own benefits ; for you are threatened with some Epistle , and not suffered to do good in quiet , or to compound for their silence whom you have ' ALL ...
... poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are often in danger of your own benefits ; for you are threatened with some Epistle , and not suffered to do good in quiet , or to compound for their silence whom you have ' ALL ...
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... poets and historians ; for the best which can happen to them is to be forgotten ; but such who , under Kings , are the fathers of their country , and by a just and prudent ordering of affairs preserve it , have the same reason to ...
... poets and historians ; for the best which can happen to them is to be forgotten ; but such who , under Kings , are the fathers of their country , and by a just and prudent ordering of affairs preserve it , have the same reason to ...
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... ; for though I might use the privilege of a poet , to introduce her into Alexandria , yet I had not enough considered , that the compassion she moved to herself and children was destructive to that which 14 PREFACE TO.
... ; for though I might use the privilege of a poet , to introduce her into Alexandria , yet I had not enough considered , that the compassion she moved to herself and children was destructive to that which 14 PREFACE TO.
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... poet . Honest Montagne goes yet farther : " Nous ne sommes que ceremonie ; la ceremonie nous emporte , et laissons la substance des choses ; nous tenons aux branches , et abandonnons le tronc et le corps . Nous avons appris aux Dames de ...
... poet . Honest Montagne goes yet farther : " Nous ne sommes que ceremonie ; la ceremonie nous emporte , et laissons la substance des choses ; nous tenons aux branches , et abandonnons le tronc et le corps . Nous avons appris aux Dames de ...
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... poet ' ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity ; when he should have given us ... poets , but that I find our Chedreux * criticks wholly form their judgments by them . • Racine . 8 The criticks are ...
... poet ' ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity ; when he should have given us ... poets , but that I find our Chedreux * criticks wholly form their judgments by them . • Racine . 8 The criticks are ...
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