Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... speak generally , their lovers say little , when they see each other , but ' my soul , my life ; my life and soul , ' 43 as the women in Juvenal's time used to cry out in the fury of their kindness : then indeed to speak sense were an ...
... speak generally , their lovers say little , when they see each other , but ' my soul , my life ; my life and soul , ' 43 as the women in Juvenal's time used to cry out in the fury of their kindness : then indeed to speak sense were an ...
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... speak generally , it cannot be denied that short speeches and replies are more apt to move the passions and beget concernment in us than the other : for it is unnatural for any one in a gust of passion to speak long together , or for ...
... speak generally , it cannot be denied that short speeches and replies are more apt to move the passions and beget concernment in us than the other : for it is unnatural for any one in a gust of passion to speak long together , or for ...
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... speaking , and Boccaccio makes the like ; but I will follow neither of them . Our countryman , in the end of his ... speak her words properly , For this ye knowen as well as I , Who shall tellen a tale after a man , He mote rehearse ...
... speaking , and Boccaccio makes the like ; but I will follow neither of them . Our countryman , in the end of his ... speak her words properly , For this ye knowen as well as I , Who shall tellen a tale after a man , He mote rehearse ...
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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