The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations ...J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English poetry |
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Page vii
... write a fecond Part , but , declining it , engag'd Mr. Tate to undertake it under his Directi on , and wrote near two hundred lines in it . His next Poem was entitled The Medal , a Satire against Se- dition , written upon occafion of a ...
... write a fecond Part , but , declining it , engag'd Mr. Tate to undertake it under his Directi on , and wrote near two hundred lines in it . His next Poem was entitled The Medal , a Satire against Se- dition , written upon occafion of a ...
Page ix
... Writer to the laft , even to near feventy years ; improving in fire and imagination , as well as in judgment . He was equally excellent in Verse and in Profe ; and his ex- cellence in the latter he us❜d to ascribe to his having often ...
... Writer to the laft , even to near feventy years ; improving in fire and imagination , as well as in judgment . He was equally excellent in Verse and in Profe ; and his ex- cellence in the latter he us❜d to ascribe to his having often ...
Page xiv
... writes , Her hero pleases , and her fatire bites . From her no harsh , unartful numbers fall , She wears all dreffes , and fhe charms in all : How might we fear our English poctry , That long has flourish'd , fhould decay in thee ; Did ...
... writes , Her hero pleases , and her fatire bites . From her no harsh , unartful numbers fall , She wears all dreffes , and fhe charms in all : How might we fear our English poctry , That long has flourish'd , fhould decay in thee ; Did ...
Page 42
... writer , may more juftly be admitted . I have chofen to write my poem in quatrains , or ftanzas of four in alternate rhyme , because I have ever judged them more noble , and of greater dignity , both for the found and number , than any ...
... writer , may more juftly be admitted . I have chofen to write my poem in quatrains , or ftanzas of four in alternate rhyme , because I have ever judged them more noble , and of greater dignity , both for the found and number , than any ...
Page 43
... write correctly in this kind , muft needs acknowledge , that the laft line of the ftanza is to be confidered in the compofition of the firft . Nei- ther can we give ourselves the liberty of making any part of a verfe for the fake of ...
... write correctly in this kind , muft needs acknowledge , that the laft line of the ftanza is to be confidered in the compofition of the firft . Nei- ther can we give ourselves the liberty of making any part of a verfe for the fake of ...
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