| John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...clearness imaginable, together with all the nobleness of expression ; all the graces and ornaments proper and peculiar to it, without deviating into the language or diction of poetry. I make this observation, only to distinguish his style from that of many poetical writers, who, meaning... | |
| David L. Larsen - Religion - 1998 - 418 pages
...Reasonableness of the Resurrection." He was such a smooth stylist that the poet Dryden said of him, "if he had any talent for English prose it was owing...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson."4 Tillotson's sermons were like literary essays, in which each word was carefully... | |
| David Nichol Smith - DRYDEN, JOHN, 1631-1700 - 1966 - 112 pages
...Dramatick Works in 1717, and in the Dedication he wrote this sentence which has given some trouble — I have heard him frequently own with Pleasure, that...to his having often read the Writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson. On the face of it this is a manifest exaggeration, at the least, though we need... | |
| 160 pages
...found no fault with the Five Mile Act and the Conventicle * " I have frequently heard him (Dryden) own with pleasure, that if he had any talent for English...to his having often read the writings of the great Archbishop Tillotson." — Congreve's Dedication of Dryden's Plays. K. III. 4 I Act, except that those... | |
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