...CONGBEVE (Dedication to his Plays') says. " I have frequently heard him own with pleasure, that if he hud any talent for English prose, it was owing to his...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." An atrocious assertion in some Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton, extracted from the Memoir of T....

...of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. f " I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose it was owing to his having often read the writirga of the great Archbishop Tillotson." Congreve's Dedication «fDryden'» Plays. (ion was destined...

...composition were necessary for the establishment of regu163 I have heard Dryden frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent for English prose,...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson. — CONCRETE: Dedication to Ihike of Newcastle. Gray, who thought the prose of Dryden almost equal...

...hoods. The very consciousness that there was little * " I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose...to his having often read the writings of the great Arch bishop Tillotson." — Congreve's Dedication of Dryden's Plays. in his worldly circumstances to...

...Having lived in seclusion, and having had little oppor1 "I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." Congreve's Dedication of Dryden'a Plays. tunity of correcting his opinions by reading or conversation,...

...poetical writers, who meaning to write harmoniously in prose, do in truth often write mere blank verse. His versification and his numbers he could learn of...possessed those talents in perfection in our tongue, and they who have best succeeded in them, since his time, have been indebted to his example; and the...

...hoods. The very consciousness that there was little * " I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbifihof Tillotson."— Congreve's Dedication of Dry> den's Plays. 158 STATE OF ENGLAND IN 16Sf>....

...vivacity in his style." — Hallam, Lit. of Europe, iii. 297. " I have heard Dryden frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent for English prose,...read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." — Cungreve. " Tillotson's manner of writing is inimitable, for one who reads him wonders why he himself...

...to his encomium : — " I have heard him frequently own with pleasure that if he had any talent in English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." It is a pity that such frequent perusal should have kept him insensible to the arguments of the accomplished...

...the transition is made by Tillotson. Macaulay relates that Dryden was frequently heard to "own with pleasure that, if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to hjs having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." But of this simplicity in arrangement...