Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... passage in the present volume . ' Where there is no difficulty there is no praise ' ( p . 8 ) . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ; nothing is easier than to tell how a ...
... passage in the present volume . ' Where there is no difficulty there is no praise ' ( p . 8 ) . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ; nothing is easier than to tell how a ...
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... passage in the ' Rehearsal ' still remaining , which seems to have related originally to Davenant . Bayes hurts his nose , and comes in with brown paper applied to the bruise ; how this affected Dryden does not appear . Davenant's nose ...
... passage in the ' Rehearsal ' still remaining , which seems to have related originally to Davenant . Bayes hurts his nose , and comes in with brown paper applied to the bruise ; how this affected Dryden does not appear . Davenant's nose ...
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... passage in the last edition ; but in the original there was an abatement of the censure , beginning thus : ' But what remains will be so pure , ' twill bear Th ' examination of the most severe . ' Blackmore , finding the censure ...
... passage in the last edition ; but in the original there was an abatement of the censure , beginning thus : ' But what remains will be so pure , ' twill bear Th ' examination of the most severe . ' Blackmore , finding the censure ...
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... passage to another ; a work of which there would be no end , and which might be often offensive without use . It is not by comparing line with line that the merit of great works is to be estimated , but by their general effects and ...
... passage to another ; a work of which there would be no end , and which might be often offensive without use . It is not by comparing line with line that the merit of great works is to be estimated , but by their general effects and ...
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... passage . I have preserved , I think , all that is reasonable in Dennis's criticism ; it remains that justice be done to his delicacy . ' For his acquaintance , ' says Dennis , ' he names Mr. Walsh , who had by no means the ...
... passage . I have preserved , I think , all that is reasonable in Dennis's criticism ; it remains that justice be done to his delicacy . ' For his acquaintance , ' says Dennis , ' he names Mr. Walsh , who had by no means the ...
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