Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works by Samuel Johnson, Volum 1Derby & Jackson, 1861 - 635 pàgines |
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... Dryden and Thomson ; Cradock lent him a copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some ...
... Dryden and Thomson ; Cradock lent him a copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some ...
Pàgina xv
... Dryden's ' King Arthur ' what is true of Albion and Albanius ; mistakes the origin of ' Mac Flecknoe , ' and the date of its appearance ; informs his readers that King James and not King Charles made Dryden historiographer ; assigns ...
... Dryden's ' King Arthur ' what is true of Albion and Albanius ; mistakes the origin of ' Mac Flecknoe , ' and the date of its appearance ; informs his readers that King James and not King Charles made Dryden historiographer ; assigns ...
Pàgina xix
... Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he sought for information about him from Cibber ... Dryden and Pope he was writing from memory and from materials immediately within reach . His noble panegyric on ' Paradise ...
... Dryden , ' and we casually learn that ( with this very view ) he sought for information about him from Cibber ... Dryden and Pope he was writing from memory and from materials immediately within reach . His noble panegyric on ' Paradise ...
Pàgina 51
... Dryden :Donne affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires , but in his amorous verses , where Nature only should reign . - DRYDEN : Dedication of Juvenal , 1693 . Pope adopted the expression , when , in speaking to Spence of Cowley ...
... Dryden :Donne affects the metaphysics not only in his Satires , but in his amorous verses , where Nature only should reign . - DRYDEN : Dedication of Juvenal , 1693 . Pope adopted the expression , when , in speaking to Spence of Cowley ...
Pàgina 52
... Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall below Donne in wit , but maintains that they surpass him in poetry . " 36 If wit be well described by Pope , se 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 . " 36 If wit be well described by Pope , se as being " that which has been often thought , but was ...
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