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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... 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 vain hope of being A 3 DEDICATION . V.
... 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 vain hope of being A 3 DEDICATION . V.
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... fubject being very popular , as we were then at war with Holland . In 1675 he introduced a comedy to the ftage , called the Miftaken Hufband . It was not his own , though it has been attributed to him ; but he pro- tected it as an ...
... fubject being very popular , as we were then at war with Holland . In 1675 he introduced a comedy to the ftage , called the Miftaken Hufband . It was not his own , though it has been attributed to him ; but he pro- tected it as an ...
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... fubject ) particularly in the famous defcription of the queen of Egypt's failing down the Cydnus . Her galley down the filver Cydnus , & c . How he has fucceeded , we fhall not here take upon us to decide in his ftile he profeffes to ...
... fubject ) particularly in the famous defcription of the queen of Egypt's failing down the Cydnus . Her galley down the filver Cydnus , & c . How he has fucceeded , we fhall not here take upon us to decide in his ftile he profeffes to ...
Page xxiv
... facred to the memory of the king . It ap- peared in the year 1685 , as did an opera of his , en- tituled , Albion and Albanius , acted at the Queen's 1 Theatre in Dorset - garden ; the fubject is wholly xxiv THE LIFE OF.
... facred to the memory of the king . It ap- peared in the year 1685 , as did an opera of his , en- tituled , Albion and Albanius , acted at the Queen's 1 Theatre in Dorset - garden ; the fubject is wholly xxiv THE LIFE OF.
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... fubject is wholly alle- gorical : the man on the pedestal , with a lean pale face , and ferpents fucking poifon from his fides , is fuppofed to be intended for Shaftesbury corrupting the princi- ples of his followers . James the Second ...
... fubject is wholly alle- gorical : the man on the pedestal , with a lean pale face , and ferpents fucking poifon from his fides , is fuppofed to be intended for Shaftesbury corrupting the princi- ples of his followers . James the Second ...
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