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Pagina 133
The mode of versification has been blamed by Dryden , who regrets that the
heroick measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden , the
highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and
his ...
The mode of versification has been blamed by Dryden , who regrets that the
heroick measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden , the
highest reverence would be due , were not his decisions often precipitate , and
his ...
Pagina 148
In this design his friend Dryden is said to have assisted him . The same design , it
is well known , was revived by Dr. Swift , in the ministry of Oxford ; but it has never
since been publickly mentioned , though , at that time , great expectations ...
In this design his friend Dryden is said to have assisted him . The same design , it
is well known , was revived by Dr. Swift , in the ministry of Oxford ; but it has never
since been publickly mentioned , though , at that time , great expectations ...
Pagina 151
Nor is this his highest praise ; for Mr. Pope has celebrated him , as the only moral
writer of king Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days ,
Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his Essay on
Translated Verse ...
Nor is this his highest praise ; for Mr. Pope has celebrated him , as the only moral
writer of king Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's days ,
Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays . His great work is his Essay on
Translated Verse ...
Pagina 152
This declaration of Dryden will , I am afraid , be found little more than one of those
cursory civilities which one author pays to another ; for when the sum of lord
Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can ...
This declaration of Dryden will , I am afraid , be found little more than one of those
cursory civilities which one author pays to another ; for when the sum of lord
Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can ...
Pagina 163
His versification was , in his first essay , such as it appears in his last performance
. By the perusal of Fairfax's translation of Tasso , to which , as Dryden relates , b
Preface to his Fables . Dr. J. he confessed himself indebted for the smoothness ...
His versification was , in his first essay , such as it appears in his last performance
. By the perusal of Fairfax's translation of Tasso , to which , as Dryden relates , b
Preface to his Fables . Dr. J. he confessed himself indebted for the smoothness ...
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| Titolo | The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autore | Samuel Johnson |
| Editore | Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Indiana University |
| Digitalizzato | 30 gen 2009 |
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