Essays of John Dryden, Band 2Clarendon Press, 1900 |
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... give this handle to our bad illiterate poetasters , for the defence of their scriptions , as they call them . There is a sort of merit in delighting the spectators , which is a name more proper for them , than that of auditors ; or else ...
... give this handle to our bad illiterate poetasters , for the defence of their scriptions , as they call them . There is a sort of merit in delighting the spectators , which is a name more proper for them , than that of auditors ; or else ...
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... give myself the liberty of going further ; for ' tis so sweet to wander in a pleasing way , that I should never arrive at my journey's end . To keep myself from being belated in my letter , and tiring 30 your attention , I must return ...
... give myself the liberty of going further ; for ' tis so sweet to wander in a pleasing way , that I should never arrive at my journey's end . To keep myself from being belated in my letter , and tiring 30 your attention , I must return ...
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... gives for it ; but I suppose it is for fear of omitting any of his excellencies . Sure I am , that if it be a fault , ' tis 30 much more pardonable than that of those , who run into the other extreme of a literal and close translation ...
... gives for it ; but I suppose it is for fear of omitting any of his excellencies . Sure I am , that if it be a fault , ' tis 30 much more pardonable than that of those , who run into the other extreme of a literal and close translation ...
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... give my poetry a kind of cadence , and , as we call it , a run of verse , as like the original , as the English can come up to the Latin . As he seldom uses any synalophas , so I have 30 endeavoured to avoid them as often as I could . I ...
... give my poetry a kind of cadence , and , as we call it , a run of verse , as like the original , as the English can come up to the Latin . As he seldom uses any synalophas , so I have 30 endeavoured to avoid them as often as I could . I ...
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... give an example of it from Chapman's Homer , which lies before me , for the benefit of those who understand not the Latin prosodia . ' Tis in the first line of the argument to the first Iliad- 5 Apollo's priest to th ' Argive fleet doth ...
... give an example of it from Chapman's Homer , which lies before me , for the benefit of those who understand not the Latin prosodia . ' Tis in the first line of the argument to the first Iliad- 5 Apollo's priest to th ' Argive fleet doth ...
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