The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 133
... Dryden , who regrets that the heroick measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden , the highest rever- ence would be due , were not his decisions often pre- cipitate , and his opinions immature . When he wished to ...
... Dryden , who regrets that the heroick measure was not rather chosen . To the critical sentence of Dryden , the highest rever- ence would be due , were not his decisions often pre- cipitate , and his opinions immature . When he wished to ...
Pagina 148
... 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 were formed ...
... 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 were formed ...
Pagina 151
... 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 Roscommon's Essay on Trans ...
... 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 Roscommon's Essay on Trans ...
Pagina 152
... 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 qualify ...
... 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 qualify ...
Pagina 163
... it appears in his last performance . By the perusal of Fairfax's translation of Tasso , to which , as Dryden relates " , h Preface to his Fables . Dr. J. he confessed himself indebted for the smoothness of his numbers 163 WALLER.
... it appears in his last performance . By the perusal of Fairfax's translation of Tasso , to which , as Dryden relates " , h Preface to his Fables . Dr. J. he confessed himself indebted for the smoothness of his numbers 163 WALLER.
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