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, Том 3T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... French call it , cavalierement . Add to this , that the titles of many of his elegies , and more of his letters in his banishment , are addressed to persons well known to us , even at this distance , to have been considerable in that ...
... French call it , cavalierement . Add to this , that the titles of many of his elegies , and more of his letters in his banishment , are addressed to persons well known to us , even at this distance , to have been considerable in that ...
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... French seem to relinquish in despair , and which we were long unable to perform with dexterity . Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his contemporary and adversary , considers it as ...
... French seem to relinquish in despair , and which we were long unable to perform with dexterity . Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his contemporary and adversary , considers it as ...
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... French , or even than the English , which by reason of its monosyllables is far the most compendious of them . Virgil is much the closest of any Roman poet , and the Latin hexameter has more feet than the English heroick.2 The best ...
... French , or even than the English , which by reason of its monosyllables is far the most compendious of them . Virgil is much the closest of any Roman poet , and the Latin hexameter has more feet than the English heroick.2 The best ...
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... French Alexandrine of six . But the ear must preside , and direct the judgment to the choice of num- bers . Without the nicety of this , the harmony or Pindarick verse can never be complete : the ca- VOL . III . E dency of one line must ...
... French Alexandrine of six . But the ear must preside , and direct the judgment to the choice of num- bers . Without the nicety of this , the harmony or Pindarick verse can never be complete : the ca- VOL . III . E dency of one line must ...
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... French call beaux endroits , wherein they have most excelled . And though I may seem in this to have my own interest in my eyes , because he has more than once mentioned me , so much to my ad- vantage , yet I hope the reader will take ...
... French call beaux endroits , wherein they have most excelled . And though I may seem in this to have my own interest in my eyes , because he has more than once mentioned me , so much to my ad- vantage , yet I hope the reader will take ...
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