Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xv
... Dryden translated only one of Ovid's Epistles , whereas he translated at least two ; attri- butes to Settle what is by Pordage ; and , from not looking into Burnet for himself , makes Dryden the author of an answer actually written by ...
... Dryden translated only one of Ovid's Epistles , whereas he translated at least two ; attri- butes to Settle what is by Pordage ; and , from not looking into Burnet for himself , makes Dryden the author of an answer actually written by ...
Pàgina xix
... Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he sought for information about him from Cibber , whose means of information had indeed been great . His first poem ( ' London ' ) was admired by Pope , who dragged it out ...
... Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he sought for information about him from Cibber , whose means of information had indeed been great . His first poem ( ' London ' ) was admired by Pope , who dragged it out ...
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... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that they surpass him in poetry . 35 If wit be well described by Pope , " as being " that which has been often thought , but was ...
... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that they surpass him in poetry . 35 If wit be well described by Pope , " as being " that which has been often thought , but was ...
Pàgina 103
... Dryden perfected it . " " He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludicrous , didactic , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a ...
... Dryden perfected it . " " He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , ludicrous , didactic , and sublime . He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a ...
Pàgina 201
... Dryden calls him " our excellent Hudibras , whom I ought to have mentioned when I spoke of Donne . " The same confusion of name is made by Dryden in his ' Hind and Panther , ' - " Unpitied Hudibras . " buried him at his own cost in the ...
... Dryden calls him " our excellent Hudibras , whom I ought to have mentioned when I spoke of Donne . " The same confusion of name is made by Dryden in his ' Hind and Panther , ' - " Unpitied Hudibras . " buried him at his own cost in the ...
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