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... DRYDEN . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiv juvenis misere , bellique propinqui Dura rudimenta , et nulli exaudita Deorum , Vota precesque meæ ! } Eneid , book XI ...
... DRYDEN . Haud ignarus eram , quantum nova gloria in armis , Et prædulce decus primo certamine posset . Primitiv juvenis misere , bellique propinqui Dura rudimenta , et nulli exaudita Deorum , Vota precesque meæ ! } Eneid , book XI ...
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... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
... Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as elevated and majestick , and has therefore deviated into that measure when he supposes the voice heard of the Supreme Being ...
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... Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , Judicrous , didactick , and sublime . 46 He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a ...
... Dryden perfected it . " He has given specimens of various composition , descriptive , Judicrous , didactick , and sublime . 46 He appears to have had , in common with almost all mankind , the ambition of being upon proper occasions a ...
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... Dryden has conmended thein , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : " O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream " My great example , as it is my theme ! 66 Though deep , yet clear ; though ...
... Dryden has conmended thein , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : " O could I flow like thee , and make thy stream " My great example , as it is my theme ! 66 Though deep , yet clear ; though ...
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... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and after- wards , perhaps when he began to hate the Presbyterians , to have ...
... Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and after- wards , perhaps when he began to hate the Presbyterians , to have ...
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