John Dryden, a Study of His PoetryH. Holt, 1946 - 298 pages |
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Page 33
... seems to have been difficult to speak of the faculties in other than figurative terms . Dryden here compares wit to a spaniel ; elsewhere he declares that the language of the French " is not strung with sinews like our English ; it has ...
... seems to have been difficult to speak of the faculties in other than figurative terms . Dryden here compares wit to a spaniel ; elsewhere he declares that the language of the French " is not strung with sinews like our English ; it has ...
Page 238
... seems reserved . " The Virgil and the Fables seem today to stand astride of the interval between Paradise Lost and Pope's Homer . For a generation at least , anyone who pretended to be a reader read them , as one who expected to be a ...
... seems reserved . " The Virgil and the Fables seem today to stand astride of the interval between Paradise Lost and Pope's Homer . For a generation at least , anyone who pretended to be a reader read them , as one who expected to be a ...
Page 247
... seems to make a good genius and a good ear to be the same thing . Dryden himself was more sensible of the difference between them , and when it was in debate at Will's Coffeehouse , what character he would have with posterity , he said ...
... seems to make a good genius and a good ear to be the same thing . Dryden himself was more sensible of the difference between them , and when it was in debate at Will's Coffeehouse , what character he would have with posterity , he said ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF THE POET Page | 1 |
FALSE LIGHTS | 30 |
THE TRUE FIRE | 67 |
Copyright | |
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