The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volume 2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are often in danger of your own benefits ; for you are threatened with some Epistle , and not suffered to do good in quiet , or to compound for their silence whom you have ' ALL ...
... poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men , that you are often in danger of your own benefits ; for you are threatened with some Epistle , and not suffered to do good in quiet , or to compound for their silence whom you have ' ALL ...
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... poets and historians ; for the best which can happen to them is to be forgotten ; but such who , under Kings , are the fathers of their country , and by a just and prudent ordering of affairs preserve it , have the same reason to ...
... poets and historians ; for the best which can happen to them is to be forgotten ; but such who , under Kings , are the fathers of their country , and by a just and prudent ordering of affairs preserve it , have the same reason to ...
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... of Lindsey , was killed at the battle of Edgehill ( 23d Oct. 1642 ) . Being a very distinguished commander , his death was an irreparable loss to the cause of his Sovereign . that it is fit to adorn an heroick poem ; 10 DEDICATION OF.
... of Lindsey , was killed at the battle of Edgehill ( 23d Oct. 1642 ) . Being a very distinguished commander , his death was an irreparable loss to the cause of his Sovereign . that it is fit to adorn an heroick poem ; 10 DEDICATION OF.
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... poem ; for he was the protomartyr of the cause , and the type of his unfortunate royal master . your Yet after all , my Lord , if I may speak my thoughts , you are happy rather to us than to yourself ; for the multiplicity , the cares ...
... poem ; for he was the protomartyr of the cause , and the type of his unfortunate royal master . your Yet after all , my Lord , if I may speak my thoughts , you are happy rather to us than to yourself ; for the multiplicity , the cares ...
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... poem ought not to be a character of perfect virtue , for then he could not without injustice be made unhappy ; nor yet altogether wicked , because he could not then be pitied : I have therefore steered the middle course , and have drawn ...
... poem ought not to be a character of perfect virtue , for then he could not without injustice be made unhappy ; nor yet altogether wicked , because he could not then be pitied : I have therefore steered the middle course , and have drawn ...
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