Essays of John DrydenMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 218 pages |
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... speak of him in this volume , and of his prose critics have agreed to speak in praise not less unanimous than they have bestowed on his poetry ; indeed , the quality which Johnson selects as the peculiar characteristic of his poetry ...
... speak of him in this volume , and of his prose critics have agreed to speak in praise not less unanimous than they have bestowed on his poetry ; indeed , the quality which Johnson selects as the peculiar characteristic of his poetry ...
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... speak further , when I come to give the definition and character of true satires . In the mean time , as a counsellor , bred up in the knowledge of the municipal and statute laws , may honestly inform a just prince how far his ...
... speak further , when I come to give the definition and character of true satires . In the mean time , as a counsellor , bred up in the knowledge of the municipal and statute laws , may honestly inform a just prince how far his ...
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... speaking of his predecessor in that sort of poetry , " Et Græcis intacti carminis auctor . " Nothing can be clearer than the opinion of the poet , and the orator , both the best critics of the two best ages of the Roman empire , than ...
... speaking of his predecessor in that sort of poetry , " Et Græcis intacti carminis auctor . " Nothing can be clearer than the opinion of the poet , and the orator , both the best critics of the two best ages of the Roman empire , than ...
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... speak of Ennius . In the meantime I will return to Dacier . The people , says he , ran in crowds to these new entertainments of Andronicus , as to pieces which were more noble in their kind , and more perfect than their former satires ...
... speak of Ennius . In the meantime I will return to Dacier . The people , says he , ran in crowds to these new entertainments of Andronicus , as to pieces which were more noble in their kind , and more perfect than their former satires ...
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... speaking of him , gives him the best character of a father , which I ever read in history ; and I with a witty friend of mine , now living , had such another . He bred him in the best school , and with the best company of young noblemen ...
... speaking of him , gives him the best character of a father , which I ever read in history ; and I with a witty friend of mine , now living , had such another . He bred him in the best school , and with the best company of young noblemen ...
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