The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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... genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what ca fual mention and uncertain tradition have fupplied . JOHN DRYDEN was born Auguft 9 , 1631 , at Aldwinkle near Oundle , the fon of Erafmus Dryden of ...
... genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what ca fual mention and uncertain tradition have fupplied . JOHN DRYDEN was born Auguft 9 , 1631 , at Aldwinkle near Oundle , the fon of Erafmus Dryden of ...
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... genius , or to have much pleafed himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed with- out the competition of rivals who fometimes pre- vailed , or the cenfure of ...
... genius , or to have much pleafed himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed with- out the competition of rivals who fometimes pre- vailed , or the cenfure of ...
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... exercife the domination of confcious genius , by recommending his own per- formance : " I am fatisfied that as the Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably " the " the beft fubjects I ever had , fo what 6 DRYDEN .
... exercife the domination of confcious genius , by recommending his own per- formance : " I am fatisfied that as the Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] are incomparably " the " the beft fubjects I ever had , fo what 6 DRYDEN .
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... nonfenfe . " Such was the criticifm to which the genius of Dryden could be reduced , between rage and ter- rour ; rage with little provocation , and terrour with with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus DRYDEN . 15.
... nonfenfe . " Such was the criticifm to which the genius of Dryden could be reduced , between rage and ter- rour ; rage with little provocation , and terrour with with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus DRYDEN . 15.
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... genius , and which it * Downes fays , it was performed on a very unlo that on which the Duke of Monmouth landed in the intimates , that the confternation into which thrown by this event , was a reason why it times , and was in general ...
... genius , and which it * Downes fays , it was performed on a very unlo that on which the Duke of Monmouth landed in the intimates , that the confternation into which thrown by this event , was a reason why it times , and was in general ...
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