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" I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose, it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson. "
A Universal Biographical Dictionary: Containing the Lives of the Most ... - Página 164
por Charles N. Baldwin - 1850 - 444 páginas
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volumen1

Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 654 páginas
...From her no harsh unartful numbers fall, She wears all dresses and she charms in all. — ADDISON. 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...
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volumen1

Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 738 páginas
...From her no harsh unartful numbers fall, She wears all dresses and she charms in al1. — ADDISON. 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...
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Landmarks of English Literature

Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 páginas
...thought to have been splendidly remunerated." Dryden, it may be mentioned, is said " to have owned with pleasure that if he had any talent for English prose,...was owing to his having often read the writings of Archbishop Tillotson." But Dryden had written excellent prose before Tillotson appeared as an author,...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second, Volumen1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1886 - 832 páginas
...Qospel. t "I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for Enelish prose it was owing to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Til'.otson."— Congreve's Dedication of Dryden's Plays. Yet it was in these rustic priests, who derived...
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A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ...

William Minto - 1892 - 584 páginas
...he had the best of the argument ; i Dryden is said to have " owned with pleasure that if he had iny talent for English prose it was owing to his having often read the writings of Archbishop Tillotsou." This is but a random compliment; Dryden showed his talent for English prose...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden - 1882 - 526 páginas
...harmoniously in prose, do, in truth, often write mere blank verse. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose,...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...
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The Works of John Dryden: Dramatic works

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 528 páginas
...harmoniously in prose, do, in truth, often write mere blank verse. I have heard him frequently own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English prose,...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...
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Walks in London, Volumen2

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 388 páginas
...ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry. . . . His versification and his numbers he could learn of nobody, for he ttrst possessed those talents in perfection in our own tongue ; and they who have succeeded in them...
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The Works of Lord Macaulay, Volumen1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 590 páginas
...dignity of that sacerdotal office which was his single 1 " 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's Plays. title to reverence. Having lived in seclusion, and having...
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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the Spectator

Joseph Addison - 1901 - 252 páginas
...writer, made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1691. 109. " 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. 110. Dr. Eobert Saunderson (1587-1662). practical divinity....
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