The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... Dryden , having perused these verfes , faid , " Coufin Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dry- den . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his ...
... Dryden , having perused these verfes , faid , " Coufin Swift , you will " never be a poet ; " and that this denunciation was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence to Dry- den . In 1699 Temple died , and left a legacy with his ...
Pàgina 57
... Dryden , which he con- fidered as the model to be ftudied , and was impreffed with fuch veneration for his inftructor , that he per- fuaded fome friends to take him to the coffee - houfe which Dryden frequented , and pleafed himself ...
... Dryden , which he con- fidered as the model to be ftudied , and was impreffed with fuch veneration for his inftructor , that he per- fuaded fome friends to take him to the coffee - houfe which Dryden frequented , and pleafed himself ...
Pàgina 58
... Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poe- tical readers , he was tempted to try his own fkill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put January and May , " and the ...
... Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poe- tical readers , he was tempted to try his own fkill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable appearance , and put January and May , " and the ...
Pàgina 62
... Dryden had , when he lived , been accustomed to prefide . During this period of his life he was indefatigably diligent , and insatiably curious ; wanting health for violent , and money for expensive pleasures , and ha- ving excited in ...
... Dryden had , when he lived , been accustomed to prefide . During this period of his life he was indefatigably diligent , and insatiably curious ; wanting health for violent , and money for expensive pleasures , and ha- ving excited in ...
Pàgina 75
... To print by fubfcription was , for fome time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first confide- rable work , for which this expedient was employed , * Spence . is faid to have been Dryden's " Virgil * ; is POPE , 75.
... To print by fubfcription was , for fome time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first confide- rable work , for which this expedient was employed , * Spence . is faid to have been Dryden's " Virgil * ; is POPE , 75.
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