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Page 95
In the mean time , Lam obliged , in gratitude , to return my thanks to many of them , who have not only distinguished me from others of the fame party , by a particular exception of grace , but , without confidering the man , have been ...
In the mean time , Lam obliged , in gratitude , to return my thanks to many of them , who have not only distinguished me from others of the fame party , by a particular exception of grace , but , without confidering the man , have been ...
Page 98
... his humanity , his easiness of accefs , and desire of obliging those who stand in need of his protection , are known to all who have approached him ; and to me in particular , who have formerly had the honour of his converfation .
... his humanity , his easiness of accefs , and desire of obliging those who stand in need of his protection , are known to all who have approached him ; and to me in particular , who have formerly had the honour of his converfation .
Page 102
It is true , I have one privilege which is almoft particular to myself , that I faw you in the eat at your first arifing above the hemifphere : I was as foon fenfible as any man of that light , when it was but just fhooting out ...
It is true , I have one privilege which is almoft particular to myself , that I faw you in the eat at your first arifing above the hemifphere : I was as foon fenfible as any man of that light , when it was but just fhooting out ...
Page 105
I will not attempt , in this place , to fay any thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that ...
I will not attempt , in this place , to fay any thing particular of your Lyric Poems , though they are the delight and wonder of this age , and will be the envy of the next . The fubject of this book confines me to fatyr ; and in that ...
Page 111
Thus , by my long ftudy of your Lordship , I am arrived at the knowledge of your particular manner . In the good poems of other men , like those artists , I can only fay , this is like the draught of fuch a one , or like I like ...
Thus , by my long ftudy of your Lordship , I am arrived at the knowledge of your particular manner . In the good poems of other men , like those artists , I can only fay , this is like the draught of fuch a one , or like I like ...
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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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