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Title: Crowned masterpieces of literature that have advanced civilization, as preserved and presented by the world's best essays, from the earliest period to the present time
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Brewer, David J. (David Josiah), 1837-1910 Allen, Edward Archibald, 1843-1922 Schuyler, William, 1855-1914
Subjects: Essays English literature -- Translations from foreign literature
Publisher: St. Louis : Ferd. P. Kaiser, pub. co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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JOHN DRYDEN 1483 writer was recognized at once, and as far back as 1733 we find Swiftgiving such advice as is still gfiven to those who are in training for acareer of criticism.— «Get scraps of Horace from your friends,And have them at your fingers ends;Learn Aristotles rules by rote.And at all hazards boldly quote;Judicious Rymer oft review,Wise Dennis and profound Bossu;Read all the prefaces of Dryden,—For these the critics much confide in,Though merely writ at first for fillingTo raise the volumes price a shilling!» ON EPIC POETRY(Addressed to John, Earl of Mulgrave) AN HEROIC poem (truly sucli) is undoubtedly the greatest workw^hich the soul of man is capable to perform. The designof it is to form the mind to heroic virtue by example; itis conveyed in verse that it may delight while it instructs. Theaction of it is always one, entire, and great. The least and mosttrivial episodes or underactions which are interwoven in it areparts either necessary or convenient to carry on t

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