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... dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the...

The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes - Page 225
by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821
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An Historical Syntax of the English Language, Part 1

F. Th Visser - 1963 - 688 pages

...being, that we detain All his revenue. | 1672 Dryden, Defence of the Epilogue (Wks., ed. Scott/S.) 241, This being granted to be true, it would be a wonder if the poets . . . should be the only persons in three kingdoms who should not receive advantage by it (So.). |...

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