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...soul. How could it have done so? This was not his conception of his art, or of the practice of it. The same parts and application which have made me...poet might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself.2 • Yet, even so,...

...to soul. How could it have done so? This was not his conception of his art, or of the practice of it The same parts and application which have made me...poet might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself2. Yet, even so, it...

...in so unprofitable a study ? why am 15 I grown old, in seeking so barren a reward as fame ? 3040-2 B The same parts and application which have made me...poet might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself. No Government has...

...not self-pity but Dryden's angry and defiant belief in his own worth: For what other Reason have I spent my Life in so unprofitable a Study? Why am I...and Application which have made me a Poet might have rais'd me to any Honours of the Gown, which are often given to Men of as little Learning and less Honesty...

...for me to own this failing in myself, than the world to do it for me. For what other reason have I spent my life in so unprofitable a study? why am I...poet might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself. No Government has...

...literature. One does not greatly sympathise with Dryden when, at the close of a brilliant career, he says, " The same parts and application which have made me...might have raised me to any honours of the gown," because it is always puerile to maunder over possible successes that might never have been achieved...