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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... reafon to doubt Dryden's being afterwards zealously attached to the Stuart's family , through duty as well as gratitude . He was bred at Westminster - school , under the great Doctor Bufby , being entered a king's fcholar : while here ...
... reafon to doubt Dryden's being afterwards zealously attached to the Stuart's family , through duty as well as gratitude . He was bred at Westminster - school , under the great Doctor Bufby , being entered a king's fcholar : while here ...
Page xxii
... reafon of its being difcontinued : Dryden liked the play himself . He alfo , about this time , published a tranflation of Ovid's Epiftles into English verfe , two of which and the preface were of his own compofition : His Spanish Friar ...
... reafon of its being difcontinued : Dryden liked the play himself . He alfo , about this time , published a tranflation of Ovid's Epiftles into English verfe , two of which and the preface were of his own compofition : His Spanish Friar ...
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... reafon to love each other , if fuffering for each other can endear affection . You have come to- gether a pair of matchless lovers , through many difficulties ; he , through a long exile , various traverses of fortune , and the ...
... reafon to love each other , if fuffering for each other can endear affection . You have come to- gether a pair of matchless lovers , through many difficulties ; he , through a long exile , various traverses of fortune , and the ...
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... reafon ( I mean not of length , but broken action , tied too feverely to the laws of history ) I am apt to agree with thofe , who rank Lucan , rather among historians in verfe , than Epic poets : in whose room , if I am not deceived ...
... reafon ( I mean not of length , but broken action , tied too feverely to the laws of history ) I am apt to agree with thofe , who rank Lucan , rather among historians in verfe , than Epic poets : in whose room , if I am not deceived ...
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... reafon beget laughter : for the one fhews nature beautified , as in the picture of a fair woman , which we all admire ; the other fhews her deformed , as in that of a lazar , or of a fool with distorted face and antique geftures , at ...
... reafon beget laughter : for the one fhews nature beautified , as in the picture of a fair woman , which we all admire ; the other fhews her deformed , as in that of a lazar , or of a fool with distorted face and antique geftures , at ...
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