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... Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX ; a poem on the happy Restoration and Return of his most facred · Majefty King Charles the Second . The The ...
... Dryden , like the other panegyrifts of ufurpation , changed his opinion , or his profeffion , and published ASTREA REDUX ; a poem on the happy Restoration and Return of his most facred · Majefty King Charles the Second . The The ...
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... Charles the Se- cond , who had formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more ...
... Charles the Se- cond , who had formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more ...
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... Dryden , and who is mentioned by him with fome disrespect in the preface to Juvenal . The Affignation , or Love in a ... Charles Sedley ; in which he D. 4 finds finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment DRY D E N. 39.
... Dryden , and who is mentioned by him with fome disrespect in the preface to Juvenal . The Affignation , or Love in a ... Charles Sedley ; in which he D. 4 finds finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment DRY D E N. 39.
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... Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhi- bited , and it does not feem to have been ever brought upon the ftage * . In the dedication to the marquis of Halifax , there is a very ele- gant character of Charles ...
... Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhi- bited , and it does not feem to have been ever brought upon the ftage * . In the dedication to the marquis of Halifax , there is a very ele- gant character of Charles ...
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... Charles Dryden . He prefixed a very ample preface in the form of a dedication to lord Dorfet ; and there gives an account of the defign which he had once formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince ...
... Charles Dryden . He prefixed a very ample preface in the form of a dedication to lord Dorfet ; and there gives an account of the defign which he had once formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince ...
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