English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1906 - 257 páginas |
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... Dryden had made a dignified apology , Congreve had prevari- cated in vain , Farquhar , and more especially Steele , had in some degree purified the stage , but the theatre had no longer a paramount literary import- ance until Garrick ...
... Dryden had made a dignified apology , Congreve had prevari- cated in vain , Farquhar , and more especially Steele , had in some degree purified the stage , but the theatre had no longer a paramount literary import- ance until Garrick ...
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... Dryden , Cowley , and Temple the Spectator owes but little obligation . To Dryden belongs the credit of hav- ing given modernism to English prose and of having founded literary criticism . His Prefaces are cer- tainly essays , not ...
... Dryden , Cowley , and Temple the Spectator owes but little obligation . To Dryden belongs the credit of hav- ing given modernism to English prose and of having founded literary criticism . His Prefaces are cer- tainly essays , not ...
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... Dryden must be included among the remote pioneers of the latter , from the one fact that he made frequent use of a simple , colloquial style , intended to appeal not to a small circle of critics but to a wider and more popular audience ...
... Dryden must be included among the remote pioneers of the latter , from the one fact that he made frequent use of a simple , colloquial style , intended to appeal not to a small circle of critics but to a wider and more popular audience ...
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... Dryden , and Cowley had all written prior to them . The truth is that the only obligation the English essay owes to foreign sug- gestion is to the essays of Montaigne . To what extent he borrowed from Seneca and Plutarch is not worth ...
... Dryden , and Cowley had all written prior to them . The truth is that the only obligation the English essay owes to foreign sug- gestion is to the essays of Montaigne . To what extent he borrowed from Seneca and Plutarch is not worth ...
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... Dryden , who made a yet bolder inroad on the stiffness of Elizabethan prose . When Dryden's masculine vigour had quite broken adrift from the influence of Euphuism , the result was that , for the first time in the seventeenth cen- tury ...
... Dryden , who made a yet bolder inroad on the stiffness of Elizabethan prose . When Dryden's masculine vigour had quite broken adrift from the influence of Euphuism , the result was that , for the first time in the seventeenth cen- tury ...
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