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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ... - Page 593
by John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What Judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only Difficulty is to chuse or to reject ; to run them into Verse or to give them the other harmony of Prose : I have so...
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Essays of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...reject, to run them into verse, or to give them the 30 other harmony of prose : I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into a habit,...
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Preface to the Fables

John Dryden - Drama - 1928 - 54 pages
...it, 20 1 have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...to reject, to run them into verse, or to give them 25 the other harmony of prose : I have so long studied and practised both, that they are grown into...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 39

Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practic'd both, that they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me. In short, tho' I may lawfully...
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The Editor as Critic and the Critic as Editor: Papers Read at a Clark ...

John Max Patrick, Alan Roper - Criticism - 1973 - 98 pages
...more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...they are grown into a habit, and become familiar to me.43 The interest and usefulness of The History of the League are that we can locate it so precisely,...
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The Just and the Lively: The Literary Criticism of John Dryden

Michael Werth Gelber - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 358 pages
...arresting detail the whole of his imaginative life, especially when he is engaged in the act of creation: '[T]houghts, such as they are, come crowding in so...that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject ...' 17 Johnson gladly accepts the observation and gladly makes it his own. He applauds Dryden for...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 175

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1924 - 352 pages
...which is not impaired to any great degree. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so...fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject, to run them into verse, or to give the other harmony of prose. I have so long studied and practised...
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john dryden

David Nichol Smith - DRYDEN, JOHN, 1631-1700 - 1966 - 112 pages
...Fables. In the Preface to that volume he said — What Judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only Difficulty is to chuse or to reject; to run them into Verse, or to give them the other Harmony of Prose: I have so long...
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The Preface to the Fables

62 pages
...more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What Judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and Thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only Difficulty is to chuse or to reject; to run them into Verse, or to give them the other Harmony of Prose, I have so long...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 50

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1854 - 986 pages
...more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to chuee or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose. 1 have so...
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