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Page 105
... and denied to your writings for they are every where fo full of candor , that , like Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their vices ; and in this excel him , that you add that pointedness ...
... and denied to your writings for they are every where fo full of candor , that , like Horace , you only expofe the follies of men , without arraigning their vices ; and in this excel him , that you add that pointedness ...
Page 106
You equal Donne in the variety , multiplicity , and choice of thoughts ; you excel him in the manner , and the words . I read you both with the fame admiration , but not with the fame delight . He affects the metaphyfics , not only in ...
You equal Donne in the variety , multiplicity , and choice of thoughts ; you excel him in the manner , and the words . I read you both with the fame admiration , but not with the fame delight . He affects the metaphyfics , not only in ...
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This , as I faid , is my particular tafte of these two authors : they who will have either of them to excel the other in both qualities , can fcarce give better reafons for their opinion , than I for mine : but all unbiaffed readers ...
This , as I faid , is my particular tafte of these two authors : they who will have either of them to excel the other in both qualities , can fcarce give better reafons for their opinion , than I for mine : but all unbiaffed readers ...
Page 209
... always have excel• ↓ 4 led . As we fay of a court - favourite , that whatfoever his office be , he still makes it uppermoft , and moft benef cial to himself . The quickness of your imagination , my Lord , has already prevented me ...
... always have excel• ↓ 4 led . As we fay of a court - favourite , that whatfoever his office be , he still makes it uppermoft , and moft benef cial to himself . The quickness of your imagination , my Lord , has already prevented me ...
Page 220
But , fince no man will rank himself with ill writers , it is easy to conclude , that if fuch wretches could draw an audience , he thought it no hard matter to excel them , and gain a greater esteem with the poblic .
But , fince no man will rank himself with ill writers , it is easy to conclude , that if fuch wretches could draw an audience , he thought it no hard matter to excel them , and gain a greater esteem with the poblic .
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| Title | The Works of the English Poets, Volume 11 |
| Author | John Dryden |
| Editors | Samuel Johnson, Charles Bathurst (Londres) |
| Publisher | J. Rivington, 1779 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | 3 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 366 pages |
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