The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1760 |
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... English poets , now first collected and illustrated with Notes ; perhaps the acknowledged eminence of the author may apologise for the inconfiderableness of the editor . To whom can thefe poems be more properly inscribed than to fuch a ...
... English poets , now first collected and illustrated with Notes ; perhaps the acknowledged eminence of the author may apologise for the inconfiderableness of the editor . To whom can thefe poems be more properly inscribed than to fuch a ...
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... English Merchants , a tragedy ; and published with a dedication to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh . Though written in a month , it fucceeded well on the stage , the fubject being very popular , as we were then at war with Holland . In 1675 ...
... English Merchants , a tragedy ; and published with a dedication to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh . Though written in a month , it fucceeded well on the stage , the fubject being very popular , as we were then at war with Holland . In 1675 ...
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... Dryden liked the play himself . He also , about this time , published a translation of Ovid's Epiftles into English verfe , two of which and the preface were of his own compofition : His Spanish Friar , or the Double Dif- xxii THE LIFE OF.
... Dryden liked the play himself . He also , about this time , published a translation of Ovid's Epiftles into English verfe , two of which and the preface were of his own compofition : His Spanish Friar , or the Double Dif- xxii THE LIFE OF.
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... English loyalty . And all beyond that object , there appears The long retinue of a profperous reign , A feries of fuccefsful years , ! In orderly array , a martial , manly train . " Behold ev'n the remoter shores , A conquering navy ...
... English loyalty . And all beyond that object , there appears The long retinue of a profperous reign , A feries of fuccefsful years , ! In orderly array , a martial , manly train . " Behold ev'n the remoter shores , A conquering navy ...
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... ENGLISH POETS . UT fee where artful Dryden next appears , BUT Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in Great Dryden next ! whose tuneful mufe affords The sweetest numbers and the fittest words . Whether in comic founds , or tragick ...
... ENGLISH POETS . UT fee where artful Dryden next appears , BUT Grown old in rhyme , but charming ev'n in Great Dryden next ! whose tuneful mufe affords The sweetest numbers and the fittest words . Whether in comic founds , or tragick ...
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