Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... tion of Juvenal's Third Satire . This poem was purchased by Dodsley for ten guineas , got into a second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was compelled , by the fact of ...
... tion of Juvenal's Third Satire . This poem was purchased by Dodsley for ten guineas , got into a second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was compelled , by the fact of ...
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... tion at issue . But this very incapacity was useful to a critic of that particular age . Johnson had all the characteristically English dislike of anything that seemed ' too clever by half , ' the homely phrase in which the average ...
... tion at issue . But this very incapacity was useful to a critic of that particular age . Johnson had all the characteristically English dislike of anything that seemed ' too clever by half , ' the homely phrase in which the average ...
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... restored , Dryden , like the other pane- gyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession , and published ' Astrea Redux , a poem on the happy restora- tion and return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles 4 DRYDEN .
... restored , Dryden , like the other pane- gyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession , and published ' Astrea Redux , a poem on the happy restora- tion and return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles 4 DRYDEN .
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... tion ; and , so considered , cannot invade ; but privation like- wise certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples ...
... tion ; and , so considered , cannot invade ; but privation like- wise certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples ...
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... tion to the pride of wisdom . But let it be remembered , that 20 minds are not levelled in their powers but when they are first levelled in their desires . Dryden and Settle had both placed their happiness in the claps of multitudes ...
... tion to the pride of wisdom . But let it be remembered , that 20 minds are not levelled in their powers but when they are first levelled in their desires . Dryden and Settle had both placed their happiness in the claps of multitudes ...
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