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Page 103
... wherein Shakespeare , who created the stage among us , had rather written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonfon , who , by ftudying Horace , had been acquainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge ...
... wherein Shakespeare , who created the stage among us , had rather written happily , than knowingly and justly : and Jonfon , who , by ftudying Horace , had been acquainted with the rules , yet feemed to envy pofterity that knowledge ...
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If therefore I have not written better , it is because you have not written more . You have not set me fufficient copy to transcribe ; and I cannot add one letter of my own invention , of which I have not the example there .
If therefore I have not written better , it is because you have not written more . You have not set me fufficient copy to transcribe ; and I cannot add one letter of my own invention , of which I have not the example there .
Page 108
that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift intirely without it ; any more ( I may almost say ) than the world without the daily course of ordinary Providence , methinks this argument might prevail with you , my Lord ...
that neceffity of your writing , that we cannot fubfift intirely without it ; any more ( I may almost say ) than the world without the daily course of ordinary Providence , methinks this argument might prevail with you , my Lord ...
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J never could be impofed on to receive for yours what is written by any others ; or to miftake your genuine poetry for their fpurious productions . I can farther add with truth ( though not without fome vanity in saying it ) that in the ...
J never could be impofed on to receive for yours what is written by any others ; or to miftake your genuine poetry for their fpurious productions . I can farther add with truth ( though not without fome vanity in saying it ) that in the ...
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Your Lordship's only fault is , that you have not written more ; unless I could add another , and that yet a greater , but I fear for the publick the accufation would not be true , that you have written , and out of vicious modesty will ...
Your Lordship's only fault is , that you have not written more ; unless I could add another , and that yet a greater , but I fear for the publick the accufation would not be true , that you have written , and out of vicious modesty will ...
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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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