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" This worthless present was designed you long before it was a play; when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the dark; when the fancy was yet in its first work, moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there... "
The Doctor, &c - Page 257
by Robert Southey - 1865 - 694 pages
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Issue 2

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...EARL OF ORRERY.1 MY LORD, J. HIS worthless present was designed you, long before it was a Play, when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...light, there to be distinguished, and then either 1 Roger Boyle,- Earl of Orrery, fifth son of the great Earl of Cork, was born April 25, 1621; and died...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 2

John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...you, long before it was a Play, when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling over oneanother in the dark ; when the Fancy was yet in its first...light, there to be distinguished, and then either 1 Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, fifth son of the great Earl of Cork, was born April 25, 1621 ; and died...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...you, long before it was a Play, when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumblingover oncanothcr in the dark; when the Fancy was yet in its first work, V" moving the sleeping images of things towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...LORD, THIS worthless present was designed you long before it was a play ; when it was only a contused mass of thoughts, tumbling over one another in the...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment; it was yours, * This distinguished person was fifth son of Richard Boyle, known by the title of the...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment." Doge of Venice. " When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...then either, chosen or rejected by the judgment." Dry dens Dedication to the " Rival Ladies." supposing, as is much more likely, the coincidence to be...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment." Doge of Venice. " When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." Dry dens Dedication to the " Rival Ladies." supposing, as is much more likely, the coincidence to be...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 7

Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...Holding the sleeping images of things For the selection of the pausing judgment" Doge of Venice, " When it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...and then either chosen or rejected by the judgment." Dryden's Dedication to the " Rival Ladies." supposing, as is much more likely, the coincidence to be...
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"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".

Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...over one another in the dark ; when le fancy v. as yet in its first work, moving the sleeping mages of things, towards the light, there to be distinguished, and then either to be chosen or rejected, by the udgment.'- At that moment, he adds, '1 was in that anerni-ss of imagination,...
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The Literary Character

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1839 - 418 pages
...state of the mind, in the progress of composition, is described by DRYDEN, alluding to his work, " when it was only a confused mass of thoughts, tumbling...light, there to be distinguished, and then either to be chosen or rejected, by the judgment." At that moment, he adds, " I was in that eagerness of imagination,...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...mind, before it was reduced to expression, and condensed in numbers, "when," to quote from Dryden, " the fancy was yet in its first work moving the sleeping...distinguished, and then either chosen or rejected by the judgement." It js not in the picturesque and the harmonious — (and who is superior to him in these...
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