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... 280 IV . THE RESTORATION , 1660-1700 311 DRYDEN , RELIGIO LAICI 316 V. THE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD , 1700-1745 ADDISON , SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY POPE , ESSAY ON CRITICISM 347 352 377 VI . AGE OF JOHNSON , 1745-1800 BURNS , THE vii.
... 280 IV . THE RESTORATION , 1660-1700 311 DRYDEN , RELIGIO LAICI 316 V. THE QUEEN ANNE PERIOD , 1700-1745 ADDISON , SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY POPE , ESSAY ON CRITICISM 347 352 377 VI . AGE OF JOHNSON , 1745-1800 BURNS , THE vii.
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... Dryden " the father of English poetry . " Be- sides , he was peculiarly favored in the circumstances of his life . In the field , at the court , in his business relations , he acquired a wide range of knowledge , which lent support to ...
... Dryden " the father of English poetry . " Be- sides , he was peculiarly favored in the circumstances of his life . In the field , at the court , in his business relations , he acquired a wide range of knowledge , which lent support to ...
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... Dryden and Goldsmith have imitated Chaucer in describing an ideal pastor , they have both fallen below their master . Yet with this keenness of observation , this power to detect the peculiarities and foibles of men , there is no admix ...
... Dryden and Goldsmith have imitated Chaucer in describing an ideal pastor , they have both fallen below their master . Yet with this keenness of observation , this power to detect the peculiarities and foibles of men , there is no admix ...
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... Dryden looked " our sage and his old age with the same zest as in his youth . up to him as master ; and Milton called him serious poet , whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas . " As already stated , the ...
... Dryden looked " our sage and his old age with the same zest as in his youth . up to him as master ; and Milton called him serious poet , whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas . " As already stated , the ...
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... Dryden , whose genuine apprecia- tion of Milton at a time when the Puritan poet was not in fashion is much to his credit , hardly surpasses the truth : - " Three poets , in three distant ages born , Greece , Italy , and England did ...
... Dryden , whose genuine apprecia- tion of Milton at a time when the Puritan poet was not in fashion is much to his credit , hardly surpasses the truth : - " Three poets , in three distant ages born , Greece , Italy , and England did ...
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