Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... relation of his victory , ¯thra and the Chorus have but thirty - six verses ; that is not for every mile a verse . 29 " The like error is as evident in Terence his Eunuch , when Laches , the old man , enters in a mistake the house of ...
... relation of his victory , ¯thra and the Chorus have but thirty - six verses ; that is not for every mile a verse . 29 " The like error is as evident in Terence his Eunuch , when Laches , the old man , enters in a mistake the house of ...
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... relation : but the French avoid this with great address , making their narrations only to , or by , such who are some way interested in the main design . And now I am speaking of relations , I cannot take a fitter opportunity to add ...
... relation : but the French avoid this with great address , making their narrations only to , or by , such who are some way interested in the main design . And now I am speaking of relations , I cannot take a fitter opportunity to add ...
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... relation to literature ; and it is through this relationship , imaginatively created for us , that we come to see and understand the works and authors he discusses . The essay is thus personal in the most rewarding sense , for , as in ...
... relation to literature ; and it is through this relationship , imaginatively created for us , that we come to see and understand the works and authors he discusses . The essay is thus personal in the most rewarding sense , for , as in ...
Contents
A Defence of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 1668 | 70 |
Preface to An Evenings Love 1671 | 90 |
Heads of an Answer to Rymer 1677 | 115 |
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