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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Page viii
... leave to obferve to the inquiring cri- tic , that he has no where prefumed to enter the lifts with his author as a difputant ; neither has he exhausted his paper in tedioufly praising or impertinently cenfuring him . Such a proceeding ...
... leave to obferve to the inquiring cri- tic , that he has no where prefumed to enter the lifts with his author as a difputant ; neither has he exhausted his paper in tedioufly praising or impertinently cenfuring him . Such a proceeding ...
Page ix
... leaves the reader to employ his own application ; which may perhaps be thought on both fides moft eligible . The editor was a good deal difappointed at not being able , with all his industry , to obtain any effential materials relating ...
... leaves the reader to employ his own application ; which may perhaps be thought on both fides moft eligible . The editor was a good deal difappointed at not being able , with all his industry , to obtain any effential materials relating ...
Page xii
... leaving out in this edition most of the complimentary copies of verses prefixed to our author's works : they were few of them worth preferving ; but it was the custom of the times for every man who was fuppofed capable of writing , to ...
... leaving out in this edition most of the complimentary copies of verses prefixed to our author's works : they were few of them worth preferving ; but it was the custom of the times for every man who was fuppofed capable of writing , to ...
Page xxx
... leave , Dr. Garth had it removed to the College of Phyficians , where a fubfcription being made to defray the burial - expences , the Dr. pro- nounced a fine Latin oration in praife of the de- ceafed . His remains were then conveyed to ...
... leave , Dr. Garth had it removed to the College of Phyficians , where a fubfcription being made to defray the burial - expences , the Dr. pro- nounced a fine Latin oration in praife of the de- ceafed . His remains were then conveyed to ...
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... leave his favourite man , his chiefeft care , More wretched than the vileft infects are ? O ! how much happier and more safe are they ? If helpless millions must be doom'd a prey To yelling furies , and for ever burn In that fad place ...
... leave his favourite man , his chiefeft care , More wretched than the vileft infects are ? O ! how much happier and more safe are they ? If helpless millions must be doom'd a prey To yelling furies , and for ever burn In that fad place ...
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