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Pagina 46
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestic , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
Pagina 52
... Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream My great example , as it is my theme ! Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet ...
... Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream My great example , as it is my theme ! Though deep , yet clear ; though gentle , yet ...
Pagina 95
... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Cal- vinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians , to have ...
... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Cal- vinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians , to have ...
Pagina 109
... do not seem to be always copied from original form , nor to have the freshness , raciness , and energy of im- Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimità Miltoniana . mediate observation . He saw Nature , as Dryden expresses MILTON . 109.
... do not seem to be always copied from original form , nor to have the freshness , raciness , and energy of im- Algarotti terms it gigantesca sublimità Miltoniana . mediate observation . He saw Nature , as Dryden expresses MILTON . 109.
Pagina 126
... Dryden imputes to Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest , and which could not all co - operate to any single conclusion ...
... Dryden imputes to Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest , and which could not all co - operate to any single conclusion ...
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