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 vii
... plays and his Virgil excepted ) has been the bufinefs of the prefent editor . As the former of thefe confift of fatires , politics , and private hif- tory , which in a few years would become al- moft unintelligible , the occafions of ...
... plays and his Virgil excepted ) has been the bufinefs of the prefent editor . As the former of thefe confift of fatires , politics , and private hif- tory , which in a few years would become al- moft unintelligible , the occafions of ...
Page xi
... plays . The third volume of this edition may now , more properly than ever , be called Dryden's Fables , as it contains fuch of the Tales of Chaucer as he has modernized ; his tranflations from Boccace , and fuch of the Metamorphofes as ...
... plays . The third volume of this edition may now , more properly than ever , be called Dryden's Fables , as it contains fuch of the Tales of Chaucer as he has modernized ; his tranflations from Boccace , and fuch of the Metamorphofes as ...
Page xii
... Plays in the fame fize , which will make up a complete and uniform fet of his works . No body , we hope , will blame us for leaving out in this edition most of the complimentary copies of verses prefixed to our author's works : they ...
... Plays in the fame fize , which will make up a complete and uniform fet of his works . No body , we hope , will blame us for leaving out in this edition most of the complimentary copies of verses prefixed to our author's works : they ...
Page xiv
... play of Amboina , with an addi- tion of the ten laft lines . The conclufion of this fatire beginning To one well - born th ' affront is worse , & c . introduced by four new lines , ferve here as an epi- logue . His firft play was a ...
... play of Amboina , with an addi- tion of the ten laft lines . The conclufion of this fatire beginning To one well - born th ' affront is worse , & c . introduced by four new lines , ferve here as an epi- logue . His firft play was a ...
Page xv
... plays in rhyme . Here he obferves , that before the days of Shakefpear , lord Buckhurst had written a play in rhyme , entituled , Queen Gorboduc , whereas it was King Gorboduc , the compofition blank verfe ; and only the two lait acts ...
... plays in rhyme . Here he obferves , that before the days of Shakefpear , lord Buckhurst had written a play in rhyme , entituled , Queen Gorboduc , whereas it was King Gorboduc , the compofition blank verfe ; and only the two lait acts ...
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