The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... person mean by a tempest that outrides the wind ! a tempest that outrides itself . To suppose a tempest without wind , is as bad as supposing a man to walk without feet ; for if he supposes the tempest to be something distinct from the ...
... person mean by a tempest that outrides the wind ! a tempest that outrides itself . To suppose a tempest without wind , is as bad as supposing a man to walk without feet ; for if he supposes the tempest to be something distinct from the ...
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... person and his party were exposed in their turns to the shafts of satire , which , though neither so well pointed , nor perhaps so well aimed , undoubtedly drew blood . ONE of these poems is called Dryden's Satire on his Muse ascribed ...
... person and his party were exposed in their turns to the shafts of satire , which , though neither so well pointed , nor perhaps so well aimed , undoubtedly drew blood . ONE of these poems is called Dryden's Satire on his Muse ascribed ...
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... person to forbid seeing The Cheats and The Committee ; or for my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be interdicted the sight of The London Cuckolds . This is the general strain , and therefore I shall be easily excused the la- bour of more ...
... person to forbid seeing The Cheats and The Committee ; or for my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be interdicted the sight of The London Cuckolds . This is the general strain , and therefore I shall be easily excused the la- bour of more ...
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... persons of Quality , that Mr. Dryden might be carried from the College of Physicians to be interred at Westminster , it was unanimously granted by the President and Censors . to appear among the translators of Juvenal , they must 48 DRYDEN ...
... persons of Quality , that Mr. Dryden might be carried from the College of Physicians to be interred at Westminster , it was unanimously granted by the President and Censors . to appear among the translators of Juvenal , they must 48 DRYDEN ...
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... person of Dryden I know not any account ; of his mind , the portrait which has been left by Con- greve , who knew him with great familiarity , is such as adds our love of his manners to our admiration of his genius . He was , ' we are ...
... person of Dryden I know not any account ; of his mind , the portrait which has been left by Con- greve , who knew him with great familiarity , is such as adds our love of his manners to our admiration of his genius . He was , ' we are ...
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