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Page 23
... Dryden , perhaps , in his Absalom and Achitophel , part ii . might be present to our author's recollection at this place , " while he with watchful eye Observes , and shoots their treasons as they fly . " - Wakefield . Ver . 15. Laugh ...
... Dryden , perhaps , in his Absalom and Achitophel , part ii . might be present to our author's recollection at this place , " while he with watchful eye Observes , and shoots their treasons as they fly . " - Wakefield . Ver . 15. Laugh ...
Page 42
... Dryden in the art of reasoning in rhyme , whose Religio Laici , and Hind and Panther , are in this respect admirable ; though the fable of the latter abounds in absurdities and inconsistencies . -Warton . Ver . 209. Mark how it mounts ...
... Dryden in the art of reasoning in rhyme , whose Religio Laici , and Hind and Panther , are in this respect admirable ; though the fable of the latter abounds in absurdities and inconsistencies . -Warton . Ver . 209. Mark how it mounts ...
Page 49
... Dryden , and has succeeded in the attempt ; they are in a speech of Raphael , in the " State of Innocence , " amidst much trash : " Where'er thou art , he is ; th ' eternal Mind Acts thro ' all places ; is to none confin'd : Fills ocean ...
... Dryden , and has succeeded in the attempt ; they are in a speech of Raphael , in the " State of Innocence , " amidst much trash : " Where'er thou art , he is ; th ' eternal Mind Acts thro ' all places ; is to none confin'd : Fills ocean ...
Page 105
... Dryden . It is a pleasing and useful amusement to compare the didactic style of Pope with that of his master , and see which of them has the art of reasoning best in verse . -Warton . Ver . 231. Ere Wit oblique , & c . ] A beautiful ...
... Dryden . It is a pleasing and useful amusement to compare the didactic style of Pope with that of his master , and see which of them has the art of reasoning best in verse . -Warton . Ver . 231. Ere Wit oblique , & c . ] A beautiful ...
Page 131
... Dryden's Miscellanies , ver . 6. The effects of this pestilence are more emphatically set forth in these few words , than in forty such Odes as Sprat's on the Plague at Athens . A fine example of what Dion . Halicarnassus calls ...
... Dryden's Miscellanies , ver . 6. The effects of this pestilence are more emphatically set forth in these few words , than in forty such Odes as Sprat's on the Plague at Athens . A fine example of what Dion . Halicarnassus calls ...
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