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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... them against the danger with which at this moment ( December 1797 ) not these kingdoms alone , but the whole civilized world is threatened ! government which has all the advantages of liberty beyond a 6 DEDICATION OF.
... them against the danger with which at this moment ( December 1797 ) not these kingdoms alone , but the whole civilized world is threatened ! government which has all the advantages of liberty beyond a 6 DEDICATION OF.
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... whole is insipid ; as when we have once tasted of palled wine , we stay not to examine it glass by glass . But while they affect to shine in trifles , they are often careless in essentials . Thus their Hippolitus is so scrupulous in ...
... whole is insipid ; as when we have once tasted of palled wine , we stay not to examine it glass by glass . But while they affect to shine in trifles , they are often careless in essentials . Thus their Hippolitus is so scrupulous in ...
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... whole tragedy . The conduct of our stage is much more difficult , where we are obliged never to lose any consider- able character which we have once presented . Custom likewise has obtained , that we must form an under - plot of second ...
... whole tragedy . The conduct of our stage is much more difficult , where we are obliged never to lose any consider- able character which we have once presented . Custom likewise has obtained , that we must form an under - plot of second ...
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... whole Academy for many years ; for the perfect knowledge of a tongue was never attained by any single person . The court , the college , and the town , must be joined in it . And as our English is a composition of the dead and living ...
... whole Academy for many years ; for the perfect knowledge of a tongue was never attained by any single person . The court , the college , and the town , must be joined in it . And as our English is a composition of the dead and living ...
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... whole discourse has a tendency that way , and is preliminary to it . Inj what I have already done , I doubt not but I have contradicted some of my former opinions in my loose Essays of the like nature ; but of this I dare affirm , that ...
... whole discourse has a tendency that way , and is preliminary to it . Inj what I have already done , I doubt not but I have contradicted some of my former opinions in my loose Essays of the like nature ; but of this I dare affirm , that ...
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