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... only moral writer of King Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's
days, Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays. His great work is his Essay on
Translated Verse ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Miscellanies :
" It ...
... only moral writer of King Charles's reign : Unhappy Dryden ! in all Charles's
days, Roscommon only boasts unspotted lays. His great work is his Essay on
Translated Verse ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Miscellanies :
" It ...
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Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men,
struggling into notice, and hoping for some favour ... subject ; and he exerted his
imagination, his elegance, and his melody, with equal alacrity, for Charles the
Second.
Dryden and Sprat wrote on the same occasion ; but they were young men,
struggling into notice, and hoping for some favour ... subject ; and he exerted his
imagination, his elegance, and his melody, with equal alacrity, for Charles the
Second.
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When the King was restored, Dryden, like the other panegyrists of usurpation,
changed his opinion, or his profession, and published " Astrea Redux; a poem on
the happy Restoration and Return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles the ...
When the King was restored, Dryden, like the other panegyrists of usurpation,
changed his opinion, or his profession, and published " Astrea Redux; a poem on
the happy Restoration and Return of his most sacred Majesty King Charles the ...
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The practice of making tragedies in rhyme was introduced soon after the
Restoration, as it seems by the Earl of Orrery, in compliance with the opinion of
Charles the Second, who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and
Dryden, who ...
The practice of making tragedies in rhyme was introduced soon after the
Restoration, as it seems by the Earl of Orrery, in compliance with the opinion of
Charles the Second, who had formed his taste by the French theatre ; and
Dryden, who ...
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... William Davenant as poet-laureat. The salary of the laureat had been raised in
favour of Jonson, by Charles the First, from an hundred marks to ... after D'
Avenant's death. C. * Downes says, it was performed on a very unlucky 322
DRYDEN.
... William Davenant as poet-laureat. The salary of the laureat had been raised in
favour of Jonson, by Charles the First, from an hundred marks to ... after D'
Avenant's death. C. * Downes says, it was performed on a very unlucky 322
DRYDEN.
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