Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... 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 flower was ...
... 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 flower was ...
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... present times nor too distant from them . ' " ' All for Love , or the World well Lost ' , ' a tragedy founded upon the story of Antony and Cleopatra , he tells us is the 30 only play which he wrote for himself , ' the rest were given to ...
... present times nor too distant from them . ' " ' All for Love , or the World well Lost ' , ' a tragedy founded upon the story of Antony and Cleopatra , he tells us is the 30 only play which he wrote for himself , ' the rest were given to ...
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... present of the ground , which was forty pounds , with all the other Abbey fees . The Lord Halifax likewise sent to the Lady Elizabeth , and Mr. Charles Dryden her son , that , if they would give him leave to bury Mr. Dryden , he would ...
... present of the ground , which was forty pounds , with all the other Abbey fees . The Lord Halifax likewise sent to the Lady Elizabeth , and Mr. Charles Dryden her son , that , if they would give him leave to bury Mr. Dryden , he would ...
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... present time , I believe that those who had subscribed to the funeral of a man like Dryden , would not , for such an accident , have withdrawn 10 their contributions . He was buried among the poets in Westminster Abbey , where , though ...
... present time , I believe that those who had subscribed to the funeral of a man like Dryden , would not , for such an accident , have withdrawn 10 their contributions . He was buried among the poets in Westminster Abbey , where , though ...
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... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of ' Alexander's Feast . ' In those days the economy of government was yet ...
... present not unsuitable to the magnificence of that splendid family ; and he quotes Moyle as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical society for the use of ' Alexander's Feast . ' In those days the economy of government was yet ...
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