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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 3: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations
Dutch ?eet, on the 3d of June 1666, and his ditch ess's sub uent Journey into the north, furnished Dryden wit the sub ect of a few occasional verses; in which the style 0 came forth with a poem on the same subject, ) is successfully imitated. In addressing her ace, the poet suppresses all the horrors of the btatt e, and turns her eyes upon the splendour of a Victory, for w ich the kingdom was indebted to her husband's va our, and her chaste vows. In these verses, not the least vestige of metapli sical wit can be traced and they were ao cordtng y censured, astwanttng height of fancy, and.
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