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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... first edition of that poem in 4to ; and we have given the entire fecond part of Ab- falom and Achitophel , though a good deal of it was written by Tate , because the whole nar- ration is rendered thereby more perfect and uni- form . We ...
... first edition of that poem in 4to ; and we have given the entire fecond part of Ab- falom and Achitophel , though a good deal of it was written by Tate , because the whole nar- ration is rendered thereby more perfect and uni- form . We ...
Page xvii
... first part of the Conqueft of Grenada , there is prefixed an effay on Heroic Plays ; and the fecond part is followed by a defence of the epilogue , or an effay on the Dramatic Poetry of the preceding age , in which epilogue he is fevere ...
... first part of the Conqueft of Grenada , there is prefixed an effay on Heroic Plays ; and the fecond part is followed by a defence of the epilogue , or an effay on the Dramatic Poetry of the preceding age , in which epilogue he is fevere ...
Page xxiv
... first scene of the first act , the whole fourth act , and half , or rather more , of the fifth . In the year 1684 , he published Maimbourg's Hif- tory of the League , tranflated from the French , by the king's efpecial defire , on ...
... first scene of the first act , the whole fourth act , and half , or rather more , of the fifth . In the year 1684 , he published Maimbourg's Hif- tory of the League , tranflated from the French , by the king's efpecial defire , on ...
Page xxv
... first edition of which bears date 1689. His penfion was generoufly continued to him by the munificent Earl of Dorfet , who was lord - chamberlain to King William , out of his own private purfe ; and grateful mention is made of our ...
... first edition of which bears date 1689. His penfion was generoufly continued to him by the munificent Earl of Dorfet , who was lord - chamberlain to King William , out of his own private purfe ; and grateful mention is made of our ...
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... first published in 1693. In the dedication , which is a long and beautiful difcourfe to the Earl of Dorset , he lays down a plan , according to which he intended to have erect- ed an epic poem , and which Sir Richard Blackmore carried ...
... first published in 1693. In the dedication , which is a long and beautiful difcourfe to the Earl of Dorset , he lays down a plan , according to which he intended to have erect- ed an epic poem , and which Sir Richard Blackmore carried ...
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