The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volume 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... praise of a translation consists in adding new beauties to the piece , thereby to recompense the loss which it sustains by change of language , I shall be willing to be taught better , and to recant . In the mean time it seems to me ...
... praise of a translation consists in adding new beauties to the piece , thereby to recompense the loss which it sustains by change of language , I shall be willing to be taught better , and to recant . In the mean time it seems to me ...
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... praise that beautiful part of the creation , but also to make a sharp satire on their enemies ; to give mankind their own , and to tell them plainly , that from their envy it proceeds that the virtue and great actions of women are pur ...
... praise that beautiful part of the creation , but also to make a sharp satire on their enemies ; to give mankind their own , and to tell them plainly , that from their envy it proceeds that the virtue and great actions of women are pur ...
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... praise of a lady whom he never saw . This , therefore , was evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . siness ...
... praise of a lady whom he never saw . This , therefore , was evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . siness ...
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... praise , if we take the ancients for our patterns , we are bound by prescription to employ the magnificence of words , and the force of figures , to adorn the sub- limity of thoughts . Isocrates amongst the Gre- cian orators , and ...
... praise , if we take the ancients for our patterns , we are bound by prescription to employ the magnificence of words , and the force of figures , to adorn the sub- limity of thoughts . Isocrates amongst the Gre- cian orators , and ...
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... praise of it is given you by yourself . They who despise the rules of virtue both in their prac- tice and their morals , will think this a very trivial commendation . But I think it the peculiar hap- piness of the Countess of Abingdon ...
... praise of it is given you by yourself . They who despise the rules of virtue both in their prac- tice and their morals , will think this a very trivial commendation . But I think it the peculiar hap- piness of the Countess of Abingdon ...
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