The Age of Dryden. Richard Garnett
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Название: The Age of Dryden

Автор: Richard Garnett

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      It is perhaps worth remarking that, although not yet a Roman Catholic, Dryden in this name employs the orthography, not of the authorized English version, but of the Vulgate.

      4

      In his dedication to the second book of De Raptu Proserpinae, Claudian says:

      ‘Tu mea plectra moves,

      Antraque Musarum longo torpentia somno

      Excutis et placito ducis ab ore sonos.’

      5

      Mr. Churton Collins, by a clerical error, prints Waller.

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He was an ungrateful son of his alma mater, having pointedly declared his preference for Oxford. Perhaps this disloyalty may be connected with the appearance at Cambridge of a pamphlet against him, in the form of a mock defence against “the censure of the Rota,” in the same year (1673).

2

Malone thinks that it was the translation of The History of the League, but Dryden can have hardly deemed country retirement necessary for a work of this nature.

3

It is perhaps worth remarking that, although not yet a Roman Catholic, Dryden in this name employs the orthography, not of the authorized English version, but of the Vulgate.

4

In his dedication to the second book of De Raptu Proserpinae, Claudian says:

‘Tu mea plectra moves,Antraque Musarum longo torpentia somnoExcutis et placito ducis ab ore sonos.’

5

Mr. Churton Collins, by a clerical error, prints Waller.

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