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... Dryden : Sketch of his literary Life ; Roscommon , Butler , Davenant . Heroic Plays ; Dryden , Otway , Lee , Shadwell , Settle , Crowne , Behn . Comedy of Manners : Congreve , Jeremy Collier . - LEARNING : Usher , Selden , Gale , & c ...
... Dryden : Sketch of his literary Life ; Roscommon , Butler , Davenant . Heroic Plays ; Dryden , Otway , Lee , Shadwell , Settle , Crowne , Behn . Comedy of Manners : Congreve , Jeremy Collier . - LEARNING : Usher , Selden , Gale , & c ...
Strona x
... Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . - DIDACTIC POETRY : The Hin and Panther ; Essay on Man ; Essay on Criticism ; Vanity of Huma Wishes .-- SATIRICAL POETRY : of three kinds , moral , personal , political Satires of Donne , Hall , and Swift ...
... Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . - DIDACTIC POETRY : The Hin and Panther ; Essay on Man ; Essay on Criticism ; Vanity of Huma Wishes .-- SATIRICAL POETRY : of three kinds , moral , personal , political Satires of Donne , Hall , and Swift ...
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... . Literary : Sidney , Dryden , & c .; 3. Artistic : Ruskin , Sir Joshua Reynolds 484-540 APPENDIX . On English Metres INDEX 543-555 557 LIST OF EXTRACTS 566 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . SECTION I. CONTENTS . xi.
... . Literary : Sidney , Dryden , & c .; 3. Artistic : Ruskin , Sir Joshua Reynolds 484-540 APPENDIX . On English Metres INDEX 543-555 557 LIST OF EXTRACTS 566 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . SECTION I. CONTENTS . xi.
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... Dryden , and to rebuke the presumption of the poets of the Stuart age , who chose to say that English had never been properly and purely written till Waller and Denham arose . The Mooncalf is a strange satire - and one of a higher order ...
... Dryden , and to rebuke the presumption of the poets of the Stuart age , who chose to say that English had never been properly and purely written till Waller and Denham arose . The Mooncalf is a strange satire - and one of a higher order ...
Strona 138
... Dryden , and Gray . The philosophy is Christian and Platonic , as opposed to the systems of the materialist and Epicurean . The versification is clear , sonorous , and full of dignity . There is a passage at the end of the introduction ...
... Dryden , and Gray . The philosophy is Christian and Platonic , as opposed to the systems of the materialist and Epicurean . The versification is clear , sonorous , and full of dignity . There is a passage at the end of the introduction ...
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