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, Količina 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are often in danger of your own benefits ; for you are threatened with some Epistle , and not suffered to do good in quiet , or to compound for their silence whom you have ' ALL ...
... poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are often in danger of your own benefits ; for you are threatened with some Epistle , and not suffered to do good in quiet , or to compound for their silence whom you have ' ALL ...
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... poetry which the great and noble have ever had : Carmen amat , quisquis carmine digna gerit . There is somewhat of a tie in nature betwixt those who are born for worthy actions , and those who gives the following account : - " As soon ...
... poetry which the great and noble have ever had : Carmen amat , quisquis carmine digna gerit . There is somewhat of a tie in nature betwixt those who are born for worthy actions , and those who gives the following account : - " As soon ...
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... poet . Honest Montagne goes yet farther : " Nous ne sommes que ceremonie ; la ceremonie nous emporte , et laissons la substance des choses ; nous tenons aux branches , et abandonnons le ... poetry consist . Their heroes are 16 PREFACE TO.
... poet . Honest Montagne goes yet farther : " Nous ne sommes que ceremonie ; la ceremonie nous emporte , et laissons la substance des choses ; nous tenons aux branches , et abandonnons le ... poetry consist . Their heroes are 16 PREFACE TO.
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... poetry consist . Their heroes are the most civil people breathing , but their good- breeding seldom extends to a word of sense ; all their wit is in their ceremony . They want the genius which animates our stage ; and therefore it is ...
... poetry consist . Their heroes are the most civil people breathing , but their good- breeding seldom extends to a word of sense ; all their wit is in their ceremony . They want the genius which animates our stage ; and therefore it is ...
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... poet ' ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity ; when he should have given us ... poets , but that I find our Chedreux * criticks wholly form their judgments by them . • Racine . 8 The criticks are ...
... poet ' ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity ; when he should have given us ... poets , but that I find our Chedreux * criticks wholly form their judgments by them . • Racine . 8 The criticks are ...
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