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... English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of compo- sition . Of our former poets , the greatest dramatist wrote without rules , conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely ...
... English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of compo- sition . Of our former poets , the greatest dramatist wrote without rules , conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely ...
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... English writer could supply . " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such ... English poetry em- bellished by Dryden , " lateritiam invenit , marmo- ream reliquit . " He found it brick , and he left it ...
... English writer could supply . " Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such ... English poetry em- bellished by Dryden , " lateritiam invenit , marmo- ream reliquit . " He found it brick , and he left it ...
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... English . He translated likewise the Epistle of Sappho to Phaon from Ovid , to complete the version which was before imperfect ; and wrote some other small pieces which he after- wards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets ...
... English . He translated likewise the Epistle of Sappho to Phaon from Ovid , to complete the version which was before imperfect ; and wrote some other small pieces which he after- wards printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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