Essays of John DrydenMacmillan and Company, 1903 - 218 sivua |
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Sivu ix
... natural , since pocts always succeeded better in fiction than in truth . However , his poetry and his wit combined ... nature a courtier as well as a critic ; and his next attempt at anything higher than a song or a prologue was called ...
... natural , since pocts always succeeded better in fiction than in truth . However , his poetry and his wit combined ... nature a courtier as well as a critic ; and his next attempt at anything higher than a song or a prologue was called ...
Sivu xi
... Of the highest class of poetry , a cheerful , genial spirit seems to be among the most essential qualities ; while the principal ingredients in all satire are · bitterness and ill - nature . However , at the INTRODUCTION .
... Of the highest class of poetry , a cheerful , genial spirit seems to be among the most essential qualities ; while the principal ingredients in all satire are · bitterness and ill - nature . However , at the INTRODUCTION .
Sivu xii
John Dryden Charles Duke Yonge. bitterness and ill - nature . However , at the time , the more extreme its severity the more certain was it to win the approval of all with whose political views it coincided . Its success led him to fresh ...
John Dryden Charles Duke Yonge. bitterness and ill - nature . However , at the time , the more extreme its severity the more certain was it to win the approval of all with whose political views it coincided . Its success led him to fresh ...
Sivu xvii
... natural acuteness and judicious observation , than of deep or accurate learning . As a scholar , Johnson rightly places him below Milton or Cowley , but he bids us remomber that " critical principles were then in the hands of a few ...
... natural acuteness and judicious observation , than of deep or accurate learning . As a scholar , Johnson rightly places him below Milton or Cowley , but he bids us remomber that " critical principles were then in the hands of a few ...
Sivu 2
... nature of a first principle , which is received as soon as it is proposed , and needs not the reformation which Descartes used to his for we doubt not , neither can we properly say , we think we admire and love you , above all other men ...
... nature of a first principle , which is received as soon as it is proposed , and needs not the reformation which Descartes used to his for we doubt not , neither can we properly say , we think we admire and love you , above all other men ...
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