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Pagina 82
... pleased with the prospect of the new reign to have lamented his old master with much sincerity . He did not miscarry in this attempt for want of skill either in lyric or elegiac poetry . His poem on the death of Mrs. Killigrew is ...
... pleased with the prospect of the new reign to have lamented his old master with much sincerity . He did not miscarry in this attempt for want of skill either in lyric or elegiac poetry . His poem on the death of Mrs. Killigrew is ...
Pagina 297
... pleased him- self with the notice of inferior wits , and corre- sponded with the enemies of Pope . A letter was pro- duced , when he had perhaps himself forgotten it , in which he tells Concanen , " Dryden , I observe , borrows for want ...
... pleased him- self with the notice of inferior wits , and corre- sponded with the enemies of Pope . A letter was pro- duced , when he had perhaps himself forgotten it , in which he tells Concanen , " Dryden , I observe , borrows for want ...
Pagina 337
... pleased others , he contented himself . He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers ; he never attempted to make that better which was already good , nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty . He wrote , as he ...
... pleased others , he contented himself . He spent no time in struggles to rouse latent powers ; he never attempted to make that better which was already good , nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty . He wrote , as he ...
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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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