 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 páginas
...living became more free: and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrain'd melancholy way of breeding, began first to display...mixing the solidity of our Nation, with the air and gayety of our neighbours. This being granted to be true, it would be a wonder, if the Poets, whose... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 474 páginas
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 | Joan Thirsk - 1976 - 236 páginas
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 | David Wykes - 1977 - 264 páginas
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 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 páginas
...wrote Dryden, "our way of living became more free: and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding,...nation with the air and gaiety of our neighbours" (1:182). The Defence of the Epilogue ( 1 672) , in which Dryden makes this claim, may be exceptional... | |
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... dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the... 
