The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Том 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... English classics , -one who may claim at least the third place in that honoured list , and who has given proofs of greater versatility of talent than either Shakespeare or Milton , though justly pla- ced inferior to them in their ...
... English classics , -one who may claim at least the third place in that honoured list , and who has given proofs of greater versatility of talent than either Shakespeare or Milton , though justly pla- ced inferior to them in their ...
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... English literature . Several inaccuracies which had crept into the former edition of this work , are correct- ed in the present ; and the whole has been . revised with care . CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST . PAGE . The Life of ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
... English literature . Several inaccuracies which had crept into the former edition of this work , are correct- ed in the present ; and the whole has been . revised with care . CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST . PAGE . The Life of ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
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... English , which he taught them ; Euphues and his England ' began first that language . All our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court who could not parle Euphuism , was as little re- garded , as she which now there ...
... English , which he taught them ; Euphues and his England ' began first that language . All our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court who could not parle Euphuism , was as little re- garded , as she which now there ...
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... English composition to the barbarous rules of the ancient Anglo - Saxons , the merit of whose poems consisted , not in the ideas , but in the quaint arrangement of the words , and the regu- lar recurrence of some favourite sound or ...
... English composition to the barbarous rules of the ancient Anglo - Saxons , the merit of whose poems consisted , not in the ideas , but in the quaint arrangement of the words , and the regu- lar recurrence of some favourite sound or ...
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... English verse , none of which are now in existence . * During the last year of his residence at Westminster , the death of Henry Lord Has- tings , a young nobleman of great learning , and much beloved , called forth no less than ninety ...
... English verse , none of which are now in existence . * During the last year of his residence at Westminster , the death of Henry Lord Has- tings , a young nobleman of great learning , and much beloved , called forth no less than ninety ...
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Страница 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Страница 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Страница 311 - Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Страница 313 - But, gracious God ! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Страница 189 - His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding. The little talent which he has, is fancy. He sometimes labours with a thought ; but, with the pudder he makes to bring it into the world...
Страница 123 - I boldly answer him that an heroic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, or exceeding probable : but that he may let himself loose to visionary objects, and to the representation of such things as, depending not on sense and therefore not to be comprehended by knowledge, may give him a freer scope for imagination.
Страница 447 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Страница 111 - Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Страница 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Страница 473 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.