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... Fables ( 1700 ) , consists of stories freely rendered from Ovid , Boccaccio and Chaucer , always - at least this was part of his intention - with the purpose of seeing what he could make the language do , and what he himself could accom ...
... Fables ( 1700 ) , consists of stories freely rendered from Ovid , Boccaccio and Chaucer , always - at least this was part of his intention - with the purpose of seeing what he could make the language do , and what he himself could accom ...
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... Fables : When an ancient word for its sound and significancy deserves to be reviv'd , I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity to restore it . All beyond this is superstition . Words are not like landmarks , so sacred as never to ...
... Fables : When an ancient word for its sound and significancy deserves to be reviv'd , I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity to restore it . All beyond this is superstition . Words are not like landmarks , so sacred as never to ...
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... fables within the fable , those of the swallows and of the pigeons , each a beautiful little poem in itself , apart from the political implications . The astonishing thing is that though now and then we encounter some tedious passages ...
... fables within the fable , those of the swallows and of the pigeons , each a beautiful little poem in itself , apart from the political implications . The astonishing thing is that though now and then we encounter some tedious passages ...
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ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL Æneis agonising pride Alexander's Feast Anne Killigrew ANNUS MIRABILIS Astraea Redux BONAMY DOBRÉE character CHARLES Comedy Congreve contemporaries critical Dedication of Examen DRAMATIC Dramatick Poesy Duke E. W. F. Tomlin edited by G. R. Edmund Blunden Epistle Essay of Dramatick Fables father of English folio collected edition G. R. Noyes heroic Hind honour human Indian Emperour 1665 JOHN DRYDEN Johnson Kathleen Raine language literary figures literature live LOAN DEPT London Lord lov'd Lucretius MACFLECKNOE Marriage a-la-Mode Milton Miscellanies nation nature never numbers Oxford Panther passion perhaps phrase play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political Preface Prologues and Epilogues prose QUEEN Religio Laici religion religious Restoration comedy rhyme sacred Saint Cecilia Ode satire scepticism Secular Masque sense Shadwell Shakespeare song soul T. S. ELIOT theatre things thou thoughts tion Tragi-comedy translations TYRANNICK LOVE verse vigour Virgil vols wholly words writing wrote