The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... Charles the First and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood , " by certain persons ... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley.how ...
... Charles the First and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood , " by certain persons ... Dryden , who went with Mr. Sprat to the first exhibition , related to Mr. Dennis , " that , when they told Cowley.how ...
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... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his Essay on Translated Verse ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Miscellanies : " It was my Lord ...
... Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days , Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his Essay on Translated Verse ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Miscellanies : " It was my Lord ...
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... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for some ... Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ...
... Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men , struggling into notice , and hoping for some ... Charles the Second . It is not possible to read , without some contempt and indignation , poems of the same author , ...
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... Dryden , like the other panegyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession , and published " Astrea Redux ; a poem on the happy Restoration and Return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles the Second . ” The reproach ...
... Dryden , like the other panegyrists of usurpation , changed his opinion , or his profession , and published " Astrea Redux ; a poem on the happy Restoration and Return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles the Second . ” The reproach ...
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... Charles the Second , who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more ...
... Charles the Second , who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote , only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of versification he was more ...
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