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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... fuch a patron as Dryden himself would have chosen ; a nobleman of the first distinction , known to love polite learn- ing , because he understands and tastes it ; and eminent for his candour , no less than his difcernment ? Had the ...
... fuch a patron as Dryden himself would have chosen ; a nobleman of the first distinction , known to love polite learn- ing , because he understands and tastes it ; and eminent for his candour , no less than his difcernment ? Had the ...
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... , with what happy elegance and variety of harmony would fuch a writer have adorned his fubject ? Inferior authors can only look up to this fummit of Par- naffus , without even the vain hope of being able A 3 DEDICATION . V.
... , with what happy elegance and variety of harmony would fuch a writer have adorned his fubject ? Inferior authors can only look up to this fummit of Par- naffus , without even the vain hope of being able A 3 DEDICATION . V.
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... fuch vast distance , he has ad- ded notes in every place that feemed to demand . them , which , while they illuftrate the text , he has endeavoured to make as entertaining as truth , the invariable guide of his inquiry , would admit ...
... fuch vast distance , he has ad- ded notes in every place that feemed to demand . them , which , while they illuftrate the text , he has endeavoured to make as entertaining as truth , the invariable guide of his inquiry , would admit ...
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... fuch a work are daily diminishing ; fo that fhortly these inimitable writings must have remained wholly without a key . He should think himself ungrateful did he not here acknowledge , that he owes much to the communication of David ...
... fuch a work are daily diminishing ; fo that fhortly these inimitable writings must have remained wholly without a key . He should think himself ungrateful did he not here acknowledge , that he owes much to the communication of David ...
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... fuch of the Tales of Chaucer as he has modernized ; his translations from Boccace , and fuch of the Metamorphofes as he tranflated : all difpofed in their respective places . We were a good deal mortified to find ourfelves obliged to ...
... fuch of the Tales of Chaucer as he has modernized ; his translations from Boccace , and fuch of the Metamorphofes as he tranflated : all difpofed in their respective places . We were a good deal mortified to find ourfelves obliged to ...
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