Original poems by John Dryden, Esq, Volume 3Kincaid, 1773 |
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... whofe doors were opened on the outfide , to fave the people even the common civility of asking entrance ; where all were equally admitted ; where nothing that was reafonable was denied ; where misfortune was a powerful recommendation ...
... whofe doors were opened on the outfide , to fave the people even the common civility of asking entrance ; where all were equally admitted ; where nothing that was reafonable was denied ; where misfortune was a powerful recommendation ...
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... , and knows not when he has faid enough . But there are more great wits , befide Chaucer , whofe fault is their excess of conceits , and thofe ill forted . An author is not to write all he can , but only all he ought PREFACE . 37.
... , and knows not when he has faid enough . But there are more great wits , befide Chaucer , whofe fault is their excess of conceits , and thofe ill forted . An author is not to write all he can , but only all he ought PREFACE . 37.
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... whofe laurel , though un- worthy , I have worn after him , that this story was of English growth , and Chaucer's own : But I was unde- ceived by Boccace ; for , cafually looking on the end of his feventh Giornata , I found Dioneo ...
... whofe laurel , though un- worthy , I have worn after him , that this story was of English growth , and Chaucer's own : But I was unde- ceived by Boccace ; for , cafually looking on the end of his feventh Giornata , I found Dioneo ...
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... whofe examples , as they excufe not me , fo it might be poffibly fuppofed that he read them not without fome pleafure . They who have written com- mentaries on those poets , or on Horace , Juvenal , and Martial , have explained fome ...
... whofe examples , as they excufe not me , fo it might be poffibly fuppofed that he read them not without fome pleafure . They who have written com- mentaries on those poets , or on Horace , Juvenal , and Martial , have explained fome ...
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... whofe cheeks unite The diff'ring titles of the Red and White ; Who Heav'n's alternate beauty well display , The blush of morning , and the milky way ; Whofe face is Paradife , but fenc'd from fin : For God in either eye has plac'd a ...
... whofe cheeks unite The diff'ring titles of the Red and White ; Who Heav'n's alternate beauty well display , The blush of morning , and the milky way ; Whofe face is Paradife , but fenc'd from fin : For God in either eye has plac'd a ...
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