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... strained conceit , that can be engendered by a strong memory and a heated brain , applied to the absurd purpose of hatching unnatural con- ceits . It appears , that this fantastical person had LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 7.
... strained conceit , that can be engendered by a strong memory and a heated brain , applied to the absurd purpose of hatching unnatural con- ceits . It appears , that this fantastical person had LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 7.
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Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. ceits . It appears , that this fantastical person had a considerable share in determining the false taste of his age , which soon became so general , that the tares which ...
Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. ceits . It appears , that this fantastical person had a considerable share in determining the false taste of his age , which soon became so general , that the tares which ...
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... appears , from some passages in his will , to have entertain- ed the puritanical principles , which , we shall pre- sently find , descended to his family . Erasmus Driden , his eldest son , succeeded to the estate of Canons - Ashby ...
... appears , from some passages in his will , to have entertain- ed the puritanical principles , which , we shall pre- sently find , descended to his family . Erasmus Driden , his eldest son , succeeded to the estate of Canons - Ashby ...
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... appears altogether improbable . Notwithstanding , therefore , the sarcasm of the Duke of Buckingham , the register of Oldwinkle All Saints parish , had it been in existence , would 1718 , leaving one daughter and five grandsons . Henry ...
... appears altogether improbable . Notwithstanding , therefore , the sarcasm of the Duke of Buckingham , the register of Oldwinkle All Saints parish , had it been in existence , would 1718 , leaving one daughter and five grandsons . Henry ...
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... appears , that the author's admiration of Davenant had not decreased . Indeed , he , long afterwards , bore tes- timony to that author's quick and piercing ima- gination ; which at once produced thoughts re- mote , new , and surprising ...
... appears , that the author's admiration of Davenant had not decreased . Indeed , he , long afterwards , bore tes- timony to that author's quick and piercing ima- gination ; which at once produced thoughts re- mote , new , and surprising ...
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Sida 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Sida 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Sida 311 - Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Sida 313 - But, gracious God ! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Sida 189 - His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding. The little talent which he has, is fancy. He sometimes labours with a thought ; but, with the pudder he makes to bring it into the world...
Sida 123 - I boldly answer him that an heroic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, or exceeding probable : but that he may let himself loose to visionary objects, and to the representation of such things as, depending not on sense and therefore not to be comprehended by knowledge, may give him a freer scope for imagination.
Sida 447 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Sida 111 - Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Sida 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Sida 473 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.