The works of Samuel Johnson, 6. ciltG. Offor, 1818 |
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... support the dates assigned to Dryden's Plays . These are now rectified in the margin by reference to the original Editions , the only guides to be relied on . Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed before . A 2.
... support the dates assigned to Dryden's Plays . These are now rectified in the margin by reference to the original Editions , the only guides to be relied on . Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed before . A 2.
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Samuel Johnson. Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed before . * The former edition I have not seen . This was transcribed for the press from his own manu- script . As this undertaking was occasional and unforeseen , I ...
Samuel Johnson. Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed before . * The former edition I have not seen . This was transcribed for the press from his own manu- script . As this undertaking was occasional and unforeseen , I ...
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... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irrita- ted , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irrita- ted , was obliged to pass over many ...
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... REMARKS are not easily understood with- out examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their ad- mirers ) , was eminently ...
... REMARKS are not easily understood with- out examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their ad- mirers ) , was eminently ...
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... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradi- tion , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for❜t was , Like ...
... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradi- tion , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love within too strong for❜t was , Like ...
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