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Pagina 30
To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety, but not the
knowledge; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge, but not the gaiety. The
verses to Davenant, which are vigorously begun, and happily concluded, contain
some ...
To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety, but not the
knowledge; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge, but not the gaiety. The
verses to Davenant, which are vigorously begun, and happily concluded, contain
some ...
Pagina 151
His works are not common, and therefore I shall subjoin his verses. In examining
this performance, Nothing must be considered as having not only a negative but
a kind of positive signification; as I need not fear thieves, I have nothing; ...
His works are not common, and therefore I shall subjoin his verses. In examining
this performance, Nothing must be considered as having not only a negative but
a kind of positive signification; as I need not fear thieves, I have nothing; ...
Pagina 196
We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer
naturally pleases himself with a performance, which owes nothing to the subject.
But compositions merely pretty have the fate of other pretty things, and are quitted
in ...
We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer
naturally pleases himself with a performance, which owes nothing to the subject.
But compositions merely pretty have the fate of other pretty things, and are quitted
in ...
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