The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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Its Memorable Characters and Events Leigh Hunt Austin Dobson. 364 DRYDEN his intelligence ; nothing being so eager to catch all petty advantages as the consciousness of having no other ground to go upon . It may be answered that Dryden's ...
Its Memorable Characters and Events Leigh Hunt Austin Dobson. 364 DRYDEN his intelligence ; nothing being so eager to catch all petty advantages as the consciousness of having no other ground to go upon . It may be answered that Dryden's ...
Page 365
... Dryden neglected his stipulated labour , Tonson possessed powers of animadversion , which , though exercised in plain prose , were not a little dreaded by the poet . Lord Bolingbroke , already a votary of the Muses , and admitted to ...
... Dryden neglected his stipulated labour , Tonson possessed powers of animadversion , which , though exercised in plain prose , were not a little dreaded by the poet . Lord Bolingbroke , already a votary of the Muses , and admitted to ...
Page 370
... Dryden was speaking of his own things , as he frequently did , especially of such as had been. lately. published . " If. anything. of. mine. is. good. " ,. says. he , tis Mac - Flecnoe ; and I value myself the more upon it , because it is ...
... Dryden was speaking of his own things , as he frequently did , especially of such as had been. lately. published . " If. anything. of. mine. is. good. " ,. says. he , tis Mac - Flecnoe ; and I value myself the more upon it , because it is ...
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