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... 1631 in North- amptonshire . Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College , Cambridge . Lived in London , writing plays . Became a Roman Catholic in 1685. Died in 1700 . DRAMATIC POESY AND OTHER ESSAYS JOHN DRYDEN 1 LONDON :
... 1631 in North- amptonshire . Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College , Cambridge . Lived in London , writing plays . Became a Roman Catholic in 1685. Died in 1700 . DRAMATIC POESY AND OTHER ESSAYS JOHN DRYDEN 1 LONDON :
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... Roman Catholicism , to which he had in the mean- time been converted . The question of the sincerity of his religious change , like that of the real significance of his political fluctuations , is an intricate one , and space cannot be ...
... Roman Catholicism , to which he had in the mean- time been converted . The question of the sincerity of his religious change , like that of the real significance of his political fluctuations , is an intricate one , and space cannot be ...
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... Roman senate . And the same respect which was paid by Tully to Atticus , we find returned to him afterwards by Cæsar on a like occasion , who , answering his book in praise of Cato , made it not so much his business to condemn Cato , as ...
... Roman senate . And the same respect which was paid by Tully to Atticus , we find returned to him afterwards by Cæsar on a like occasion , who , answering his book in praise of Cato , made it not so much his business to condemn Cato , as ...
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... Romans than I am : but on the other side , I cannot think so contemptibly of the age in which I live , or so dishonourably of my own country , as not to judge we equal the ancients in most kinds of poesy , and in some surpass them ...
... Romans than I am : but on the other side , I cannot think so contemptibly of the age in which I live , or so dishonourably of my own country , as not to judge we equal the ancients in most kinds of poesy , and in some surpass them ...
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... Roman poets com- parable to ours , yet , on the other side , those we now see acted come short of many which were written in the last age : but my comfort is , if we are overcome , it will be only by our own countrymen : and if we yield ...
... Roman poets com- parable to ours , yet , on the other side , those we now see acted come short of many which were written in the last age : but my comfort is , if we are overcome , it will be only by our own countrymen : and if we yield ...
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action admiration Æneas Æneid Æneis amongst ancients argument Aristotle audience Augustus beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse Boccace Cæsar Catiline character Chaucer comedy commend compass confess Crites critics defend Dido discourse Dramatic Poesy Dryden Duke of Lerma endeavoured English epic Essay Eugenius Euripides excellent expression fancy father faults favour Fletcher French genius Georgics give Grecian Greek hero Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation invention Italian JOHN DRYDEN Jonson judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind language Latin least Lisideius lived Lord Lordship Lucretius manners modern nature never noble numbers observed opinion Ovid passions perfection persons Pindaric pleased plot poem poet poetical preface prose reader reason rhyme Roman satire scene Segrais Sejanus sense Shakspeare Silent Woman Sophocles speak stage suppose things thought Tis true tragedy translation Turnus Virgil virtue words writ write