Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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Page 89
... Whig and Tory excitement which is throwing the general community into sixes and sevens , and sending mobs along the streets , the calm devotee of hard science , or the impassioned lover of the ideal , going on his way , aloof from it ...
... Whig and Tory excitement which is throwing the general community into sixes and sevens , and sending mobs along the streets , the calm devotee of hard science , or the impassioned lover of the ideal , going on his way , aloof from it ...
Page 123
... Whigs and Protestants rallying , for want of a better man , round Charles's illegitimate son , the handsome and popular ... Whig service . Lee , Otway , Tate , and others , worked for the Court party . Dryden , as laureate and Tory , had ...
... Whigs and Protestants rallying , for want of a better man , round Charles's illegitimate son , the handsome and popular ... Whig service . Lee , Otway , Tate , and others , worked for the Court party . Dryden , as laureate and Tory , had ...
Page 124
... Whigs , received a thrashing all to himself , was published in October in the same year ; and , a month later , there appeared the so - called Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel , written by Nahum Tate , under Dryden's ...
... Whigs , received a thrashing all to himself , was published in October in the same year ; and , a month later , there appeared the so - called Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel , written by Nahum Tate , under Dryden's ...
Page 128
... Whigs had it all to them- selves . Dryden , as a matter of course , had to give up the laureateship ; and , as William ... Whig generation , and still , despite the change of dynasty , retaining his literary pre- eminence . For a while ...
... Whigs had it all to them- selves . Dryden , as a matter of course , had to give up the laureateship ; and , as William ... Whig generation , and still , despite the change of dynasty , retaining his literary pre- eminence . For a while ...
Page 131
... Whig court , what with other causes , a purer and more delicate taste crept in ; and people became ashamed of what their fathers had delighted in . Dryden lived to see the beginnings of this important change , and , with many ...
... Whig court , what with other causes , a purer and more delicate taste crept in ; and people became ashamed of what their fathers had delighted in . Dryden lived to see the beginnings of this important change , and , with many ...
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