The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, 4. köideWilliam Miller, 1808 |
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... There is something ludicrous in the idea of a beauty , or a gallant , of that gay and licentious court poring over a work of five or six folio volumes by way of amusement ; but such was the taste of the age , that Fynes Morison , in his ...
... There is something ludicrous in the idea of a beauty , or a gallant , of that gay and licentious court poring over a work of five or six folio volumes by way of amusement ; but such was the taste of the age , that Fynes Morison , in his ...
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... There's not a star of thine dare stay with thee : I'll whistle thy tame fortune after me ; And whirl fate with me wheresoe'er I fly , As winds drive storms before them in the sky . This curious passage did not escape the malicious ...
... There's not a star of thine dare stay with thee : I'll whistle thy tame fortune after me ; And whirl fate with me wheresoe'er I fly , As winds drive storms before them in the sky . This curious passage did not escape the malicious ...
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... there is a necessity in fate , Why still the brave bold man is fortunate ; He keeps his object ever full in sight , And that assurance holds him firm and right . True , ' tis a narrow path that leads to bliss , But right before there is ...
... there is a necessity in fate , Why still the brave bold man is fortunate ; He keeps his object ever full in sight , And that assurance holds him firm and right . True , ' tis a narrow path that leads to bliss , But right before there is ...
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... there is much brilliancy of event . The reader , or spectator , is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ; and although the changes of fortune are too rapid to be either probable , or altogether pleasing , yet they arrest the ...
... there is much brilliancy of event . The reader , or spectator , is never allowed to repose on the scene before him ; and although the changes of fortune are too rapid to be either probable , or altogether pleasing , yet they arrest the ...
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... there is scarce any expression , or allusion , which can fix the reader's attention upon their locality , except an occasional interjection to Alha , or Mahomet . If , however , the reader can abstract his mind from the qualities now ...
... there is scarce any expression , or allusion , which can fix the reader's attention upon their locality , except an occasional interjection to Alha , or Mahomet . If , however , the reader can abstract his mind from the qualities now ...
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