 If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies...  The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First ... - עמוד 617מאת John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 דפים
...Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Summoner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the prologue to her tale, would have procured me as many friends...against good manners: I am sensible as I ought to be 525 of the scandal I have given by my loose writings and make what reparation I am able by this public... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1925 - 448 דפים
...from vice," the true spirit of him speaks when later in the Preface to the Fables he admits his error: "But I will no more offend against good manners: I...writings ; and make what reparation I am able, by this public acknowledgement." Although there were during Dryden's life many attacks made upon his morals,... | |
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...Arthurs." His magnanimous spirit appears in the candour with which he acknowledges his former offences against good manners: " I am sensible, as I ought...writings; and make what reparation I am able by this public acknowledgment." In reply to Jeremy Collier, who had inveighed against Dryden, Congreve, and... | |
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