Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... Dryden . I. THE English laws punish vice ; the Chinese laws d more , they reward virtue . - Goldsmith . II . Whenever you commend , add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the ...
... Dryden . I. THE English laws punish vice ; the Chinese laws d more , they reward virtue . - Goldsmith . II . Whenever you commend , add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the ...
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... Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that celebrated line of Waller : " He grasp'd at love , and fill'd his hand ...
... Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that celebrated line of Waller : " He grasp'd at love , and fill'd his hand ...
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... Dryden has expressed this very excellency in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one , but all mankind's epitome . Stiff in opinion , always in the wrong , Was every thing by starts , and nothing long ...
... Dryden has expressed this very excellency in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one , but all mankind's epitome . Stiff in opinion , always in the wrong , Was every thing by starts , and nothing long ...
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... Dryden , who was said not at all to answer in this respect the character of his genius . I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse ...
... Dryden , who was said not at all to answer in this respect the character of his genius . I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse ...
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... Dryden's Juvenal . A king may be a tool , a thing of straw ; but if he serves to frighten our enemies , and secure our property , it is well enough : a scarecrow is a thing of straw , but it protects the corn . - Pope . DCCLXXV . The ...
... Dryden's Juvenal . A king may be a tool , a thing of straw ; but if he serves to frighten our enemies , and secure our property , it is well enough : a scarecrow is a thing of straw , but it protects the corn . - Pope . DCCLXXV . The ...
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