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... Letters , the greatest Part of which has never before been published . By EDMUND MALONE , ESQ . London : T. Cadell and W. Davies , in the Strand . 4 vols . 8vo . The Poetical Works of JOHN DRYDEN . ( Edited by MITFORD . ) London : W ...
... Letters , the greatest Part of which has never before been published . By EDMUND MALONE , ESQ . London : T. Cadell and W. Davies , in the Strand . 4 vols . 8vo . The Poetical Works of JOHN DRYDEN . ( Edited by MITFORD . ) London : W ...
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... letters to arrive at maturity during such a period , still more to represen in himself the change that is going on , and to be an efficient cause in bringing it about . Unless , like Goethe , he is of a singularly uncontemporaneous ...
... letters to arrive at maturity during such a period , still more to represen in himself the change that is going on , and to be an efficient cause in bringing it about . Unless , like Goethe , he is of a singularly uncontemporaneous ...
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... letters he ever wrote , thanking his cousin Mrs. Steward for a gift of marrow - puddings , he says : " A chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrow - puddings ; for I like them better plain , having a very ...
... letters he ever wrote , thanking his cousin Mrs. Steward for a gift of marrow - puddings , he says : " A chine of honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the marrow - puddings ; for I like them better plain , having a very ...
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... letter to Mrs. Steward , just cited , he says , " I am still drudging on , always a poet and never a good one " ; and this from no mock - modesty , for he is always handsomely frank in telling us whatever of his own doing pleased him ...
... letter to Mrs. Steward , just cited , he says , " I am still drudging on , always a poet and never a good one " ; and this from no mock - modesty , for he is always handsomely frank in telling us whatever of his own doing pleased him ...
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... all he ought . " † In his worst images , however , there is often a vividness that half excuses them . But it is a grotesque In a letter to Dennis , 1693 . * Preface to Fables . vividness , as from the flare of a bonfire . DRYDEN . 29.
... all he ought . " † In his worst images , however , there is often a vividness that half excuses them . But it is a grotesque In a letter to Dennis , 1693 . * Preface to Fables . vividness , as from the flare of a bonfire . DRYDEN . 29.
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Сторінка 208 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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Сторінка 264 - Your serpent of Egypt is bred, now, of your mud by the operation of your sun : so is your crocodile.
Сторінка 316 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Сторінка 258 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Сторінка 181 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses. BAN. This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Сторінка 180 - When proud-pied April dressed in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything', That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the...
Сторінка 205 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.