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Pagina 90
... excellence , or laborious effort of the mind . There wanders an opinion among the readers of poetry , that one of these satires is an exercise of the school . Dryden says that he once translated it at school ; but not that he preserved ...
... excellence , or laborious effort of the mind . There wanders an opinion among the readers of poetry , that one of these satires is an exercise of the school . Dryden says that he once translated it at school ; but not that he preserved ...
Pagina 97
... excellence in his kind . One composition must however be distinguished . The Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , perhaps the last effort of his poetry , has been always considered as exhibit- ing the highest flight of fancy , and the exactest ...
... excellence in his kind . One composition must however be distinguished . The Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , perhaps the last effort of his poetry , has been always considered as exhibit- ing the highest flight of fancy , and the exactest ...
Pagina 98
Samuel Johnson. indeed there is any excellence beyond it in some other of Dryden's works , that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pro- nounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single ...
Samuel Johnson. indeed there is any excellence beyond it in some other of Dryden's works , that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pro- nounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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