John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 109
... praise . " The inimitable Pindar " needs only to be mentioned . Isocrates and Demosthenes in ancient Greece and Cicero in ancient Rome wrote in a golden age of panegyrical prose . Rome saw a silver age in the famous twelve Panegyrici ...
... praise . " The inimitable Pindar " needs only to be mentioned . Isocrates and Demosthenes in ancient Greece and Cicero in ancient Rome wrote in a golden age of panegyrical prose . Rome saw a silver age in the famous twelve Panegyrici ...
Page 110
... praise great Conquerors or to flatter Kings , wrote Rochester in his Allusion to Horace ; and when Dryden inserted ... praise rings with a round Roman grandeur . He writes as if he lived to praise , not praised to live . His lines speak ...
... praise great Conquerors or to flatter Kings , wrote Rochester in his Allusion to Horace ; and when Dryden inserted ... praise rings with a round Roman grandeur . He writes as if he lived to praise , not praised to live . His lines speak ...
Page 113
... praise both men and books , he was never in want of excellent models . Jonson's epistles to the owner of Penshurst ... praise whatever writing they approved , and the more copious too became critical vocabu- laries . In the seventeenth ...
... praise both men and books , he was never in want of excellent models . Jonson's epistles to the owner of Penshurst ... praise whatever writing they approved , and the more copious too became critical vocabu- laries . In the seventeenth ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
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