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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... 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 writer I here introduce to your Grace been A ...
... 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 writer I here introduce to your Grace been A ...
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... writer I here introduce to your Grace been , for the honour of Great Britain , ftill alive , what a noble field would have been now open to his genius , for exerting all its powers , in celebrating your long and unwearied application to ...
... writer I here introduce to your Grace been , for the honour of Great Britain , ftill alive , what a noble field would have been now open to his genius , for exerting all its powers , in celebrating your long and unwearied application to ...
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... writer ? With what fublimity of thought and ex- preffion , 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 ...
... writer ? With what fublimity of thought and ex- preffion , 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 ...
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... writing ; neither does he pre- tend to burthen the reader's attention with heaps of quotations from learned authors . Some re- markable imitations he has indeed pointed out ; and for the rest , he leaves the reader to employ his own ...
... writing ; neither does he pre- tend to burthen the reader's attention with heaps of quotations from learned authors . Some re- markable imitations he has indeed pointed out ; and for the rest , he leaves the reader to employ his own ...
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... , Efq ; the third fon of this marriage , had for his eldeft born and heir , by Mary the daughter of John Pickering , D. D. rector of Aldwincle , John , whofe life we are now about to write . John Dryden was born at Aldwincle , near Oundle ,
... , Efq ; the third fon of this marriage , had for his eldeft born and heir , by Mary the daughter of John Pickering , D. D. rector of Aldwincle , John , whofe life we are now about to write . John Dryden was born at Aldwincle , near Oundle ,
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