Poems and Prose of John DrydenPenguin Books, 1955 - 356 pages |
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Page 152
... ancients ; and we may cry out of the writers of this time , with more reason than Petronius of his , Pace vestra liceat dixisse , primi omnium eloquentiam perdidistis : you have debauched the true old poetry so far , that Nature , which ...
... ancients ; and we may cry out of the writers of this time , with more reason than Petronius of his , Pace vestra liceat dixisse , primi omnium eloquentiam perdidistis : you have debauched the true old poetry so far , that Nature , which ...
Page 153
... ancients themselves were in reference to those who lived before them . For you hear your Horace saying , Indignor quidquam reprehendi , non quia crassé Compositum illepidève putetur , sed quia nuper.1 And after : Let Si meliora dies ...
... ancients themselves were in reference to those who lived before them . For you hear your Horace saying , Indignor quidquam reprehendi , non quia crassé Compositum illepidève putetur , sed quia nuper.1 And after : Let Si meliora dies ...
Page 177
... ancients that they have surpassed them . For the ancients , as was observed before , took for the foundation of their rythe bu plays some poetical fiction such as under that consideration could move but little concernment in the ...
... ancients that they have surpassed them . For the ancients , as was observed before , took for the foundation of their rythe bu plays some poetical fiction such as under that consideration could move but little concernment in the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
PROLOGUE TO THE TEMPEST 1670 | 97 |
PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO THE UNIVERSITY | 104 |
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