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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... thoughts , you are happy rather to us than to yourself ; for the multiplicity , the cares , and the vexations of your employment , have betrayed you from yourself , and given you up into the posses- sion of the publick . You are robbed ...
... thoughts , you are happy rather to us than to yourself ; for the multiplicity , the cares , and the vexations of your employment , have betrayed you from yourself , and given you up into the posses- sion of the publick . You are robbed ...
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... thoughts , as breeches and petticoats are of our bodies . If I have kept myself within the bounds of modesty , all beyond it is but nicety and affectation , which is no more but modesty depraved into a vice : they betray themselves who ...
... thoughts , as breeches and petticoats are of our bodies . If I have kept myself within the bounds of modesty , all beyond it is but nicety and affectation , which is no more but modesty depraved into a vice : they betray themselves who ...
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... thoughts when he wrote , " To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , " And to be grave , exceeds all power of face : " I sit with sad civility , —I read " 6 With honest anguish and an aching head . ” Our author appears to have had ...
... thoughts when he wrote , " To laugh , were want of goodness and of grace , " And to be grave , exceeds all power of face : " I sit with sad civility , —I read " 6 With honest anguish and an aching head . ” Our author appears to have had ...
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... thought it his best way to be well with Virgil and with Horace , that at least he might be a poet at the second hand ; and we see how happily it has suc- ceeded with him ; for his own bad poetry is for- gotten , and their panegyricks of ...
... thought it his best way to be well with Virgil and with Horace , that at least he might be a poet at the second hand ; and we see how happily it has suc- ceeded with him ; for his own bad poetry is for- gotten , and their panegyricks of ...
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... thought , and a flowing fancy ; for friendship will allow a man to christen an imperfection by the nature of some neighbour virtue ; Vellem in amicitiâ sic erraremus , et isti Errori nomen virtus possuisset honestum ; but he would never ...
... thought , and a flowing fancy ; for friendship will allow a man to christen an imperfection by the nature of some neighbour virtue ; Vellem in amicitiâ sic erraremus , et isti Errori nomen virtus possuisset honestum ; but he would never ...
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