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... lines : Oxford to him a dearer name fhall be Than his own mother - univerfity ; Thebes did his rude , unknowing youth engage ; He choofes Athens in his riper age . It was not till the death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a ...
... lines : Oxford to him a dearer name fhall be Than his own mother - univerfity ; Thebes did his rude , unknowing youth engage ; He choofes Athens in his riper age . It was not till the death of Cromwell , in 1658 , that he became a ...
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... lines ; a meafure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most majestick that the English language affords . Of this ftanza he mentions the incumbrances , en- creafed as they were by the ...
... lines ; a meafure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most majestick that the English language affords . Of this ftanza he mentions the incumbrances , en- creafed as they were by the ...
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... lines aboard 66 fome fmack in a ftorm , and , being fea- fick , fpewed up a good lump of clotted " nonsense at once . " Here is perhaps a fufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of ...
... lines aboard 66 fome fmack in a ftorm , and , being fea- fick , fpewed up a good lump of clotted " nonsense at once . " Here is perhaps a fufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of ...
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... lines a mefs of rhyming nonfenfe yield , " A fenfelefs tale , with flattering fuftian fill'd . " No grain of fenfe does in our line appear , " Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombaft " bear . " With noise they move , and from players ...
... lines a mefs of rhyming nonfenfe yield , " A fenfelefs tale , with flattering fuftian fill'd . " No grain of fenfe does in our line appear , " Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombaft " bear . " With noise they move , and from players ...
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... lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes his reprifals upon his enemy . fay that his answer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expose Dry- den's method of analyfing his expreffions , Το he he tries ...
... lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes his reprifals upon his enemy . fay that his answer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expose Dry- den's method of analyfing his expreffions , Το he he tries ...
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