Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . d disputed with Sir Roger the last time he appeared at the 90club. Sir Andrew, who would have been merry at such an in-cident on another occasion, at the sight of the old mans hand-writing burst into tears, and put the book into his pocket. Cap-tain Sentrey informs us that the knight has left rings and mourn-ing for every one in the club. 9S 69. quit-rent, a rent reserved, in
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . d disputed with Sir Roger the last time he appeared at the 90club. Sir Andrew, who would have been merry at such an in-cident on another occasion, at the sight of the old mans hand-writing burst into tears, and put the book into his pocket. Cap-tain Sentrey informs us that the knight has left rings and mourn-ing for every one in the club. 9S 69. quit-rent, a rent reserved, in thegrant of land, by the paymentof which the tenant is quietedor quitted from all other ser-vice. 87. Act of Uniformity. This act, or law,was passed by the English Par-liament in 1662, during the reignof Charles II. It required allclergymen holding benefices todeclare their unfeigned as- 93 sent and consent to every-thing contained in the revisedPrayer-book, and to receive or-dination from a bishop. In oneday it threw out three thousandministers from the beneficesthey into tears, etc. The circum-stance of the book is noted byall critics as an irresistiblestroke of nature. IX. ALEXANDER POPE. y. 4^ DR. JOHNSONS PARALLEL BETWEEN POPE AND DRY-DEN.^ I. Pope professed to have learned his poetry from Dryden,whom, whenever an opportunity was presented, he praised throughhis whole life with unvarying liberality; and perhaps his char- From Johnsons Lives of the Poets. 148 POPE. acter may receive some illustration if he be compared with hismaster. 2. Integrity of understanding and nicety of discernment werenot allotted in a less proportion to Dryden than to Pope. Therectitude of Drydens mind was sufficiently shown by the dismis-sion of his poetical prejudices, and the rejection of unnaturalthoughts and rugged numbers. But Dryden never desired toapply all the judgment that he had. He wrote, and professedto write, merely for the people; and when he pleased others, he
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