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" DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 375
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

England - 1845 - 816 pages
...reverence as a critic and a poet." " Dryden," says the sage, in a splendid eulogium on his prose writings, "may be properly considered as the father of English...dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and na[Feb. ture by a genius that rarely misled, and never deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...reverence as a critic and a poet." " Dryden," says the sage, in a splendid eulogium on his prose writings, "may be properly considered as the father of English...former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rales, conducted through life and natare by a genius that rarely misled, and never deserted him. Of...
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Specimens of the British Critics

John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...eulogium on his prose writings, " may be properly considered as the father of English criticism—as the writer who first taught us to determine, upon...life and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and never deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew the rules of propriety had neglected to teach them."...
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 64-66

Languages, Modern - 1880 - 1472 pages
...Kritik zu bezeichnen. „Dryden may be properly considered äs the father of English Criticism, äs the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition." Für einen Hauptunterschied zwischen volkstümlicher und französischer Dramatik galt der Reim. Dieser...
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Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...manners of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet. Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English...them. Two ' Arts of English Poetry ' were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...manners of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet. Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English...teach them. Two Arts of English Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1854 - 778 pages
...LEGENDS, by a POOR SCHOLAR. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1854. jtattt. DETDEN ON SHAKSPEBE. " Dryden may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught as to determine upon principles the merit of composition." — Samuel JOHNSON. No one of the early...
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The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...the art of writing. PRYDEN may properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the'writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the...greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through fife and nature by a genius that rarely misled, and rarely deserted him. Of the rest, those who knew...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and ...

John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...manners of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet. DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first tanght us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest...
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The first (-third, fifth, sixth) reading book, by T. Crampton and ..., Volume 5

Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...mother university. Thebes did his rude, unknowing youth engage ; He chooses Athens in his riper age. conducted through life and nature by a genius that...teach them. Two " Arts of English Poetry" were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which something might be learned, and a few hints...
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