D'Urfey
Americannoun
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What, then, were the “turning times” mentioned by D’Urfey?
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
These Lines of Spencer and those of Philips, both contain agreeable Images and Thoughts, yet are they as different as Milton and D'Urfey.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas
Dryden's and Pope's odes are almost too well known to need mention; but Addison, Yalden, Shadwell, and even D'Urfey, tried their hands on praises of the same musical saint.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
Thomas D'Urfey was a licentious writer of plays and songs, whose tunes Charles II. would hum as he leant on their writer's shoulder.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
D'Urfey was sometimes of this party; but Dryden appears to have undervalued his skill in fishing, as much as his attempts at poetry.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George
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