Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... easily perceived that it does not express the whole truth , since many men of the most exquisite taste in judging of work have but little original productive power . Another equally funda- mental question arises as to the prime ...
... easily perceived that it does not express the whole truth , since many men of the most exquisite taste in judging of work have but little original productive power . Another equally funda- mental question arises as to the prime ...
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... easily escape any more serious attention than is excited by the pass- ing pleasure of reading them for the first time . Like all true classics Johnson's writing bears the test of the most industrious and ceaseless study . Read as often ...
... easily escape any more serious attention than is excited by the pass- ing pleasure of reading them for the first time . Like all true classics Johnson's writing bears the test of the most industrious and ceaseless study . Read as often ...
Seite xxx
... easily escape a manner , ' 2 and Johnson himself came under the operation of this rule . But he knew well the essential constituents of style , as also its ultimate end . That is the best style which best conveys the writer's meaning to ...
... easily escape a manner , ' 2 and Johnson himself came under the operation of this rule . But he knew well the essential constituents of style , as also its ultimate end . That is the best style which best conveys the writer's meaning to ...
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... easily found , if even from them could be obtained the necessary information . The time at which his first play was exhibited is not cer- tainly known , because it was not printed till it was some years afterwards altered and revived ...
... easily found , if even from them could be obtained the necessary information . The time at which his first play was exhibited is not cer- tainly known , because it was not printed till it was some years afterwards altered and revived ...
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... easily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication to the Earl of Orrery , had defended dramatic rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had censured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his ' Dialogue on ...
... easily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication to the Earl of Orrery , had defended dramatic rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had censured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his ' Dialogue on ...
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