John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 9
... once tender and mocking , at once flexible and hard , at once allusive and brisk , taught Dryden his gait , and showed him how to turn all the sides of his mind to the light . For the first twenty years after the Restoration Dryden's ...
... once tender and mocking , at once flexible and hard , at once allusive and brisk , taught Dryden his gait , and showed him how to turn all the sides of his mind to the light . For the first twenty years after the Restoration Dryden's ...
Page 99
... once cast a shade over John Ogilby's Virgil , a respect- able and often sumptuously printed work which had appeared first in 1649 and which until Dryden's folio was not superseded . Ogilby had been stingy and literal . Where Virgil's ...
... once cast a shade over John Ogilby's Virgil , a respect- able and often sumptuously printed work which had appeared first in 1649 and which until Dryden's folio was not superseded . Ogilby had been stingy and literal . Where Virgil's ...
Page 263
... once , some penanced lady elf , Some demon's mistress , or the demon's self . He even ventured into graceful cynicism ; his heroine was canny in her behavior towards Lycius the lover : So threw the goddess off , and won his heart More ...
... once , some penanced lady elf , Some demon's mistress , or the demon's self . He even ventured into graceful cynicism ; his heroine was canny in her behavior towards Lycius the lover : So threw the goddess off , and won his heart More ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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