The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Том 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... probably be surprised had his extensive literary treasures esca- ped contribution on this occasion , parti- cularly as it contains several additional vo- lumes of the Luttrell collection . To both gentlemen the Editor has to offer his ...
... probably be surprised had his extensive literary treasures esca- ped contribution on this occasion , parti- cularly as it contains several additional vo- lumes of the Luttrell collection . To both gentlemen the Editor has to offer his ...
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... October 1730 , at the advanced age of ninety . She had survived the poet about thirty years . Of the remaining four sisters , no notices occur . probably have been found to contain the record of our. 26 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
... October 1730 , at the advanced age of ninety . She had survived the poet about thirty years . Of the remaining four sisters , no notices occur . probably have been found to contain the record of our. 26 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
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Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. probably have been found to contain the record of our poet's baptism.irdle Dryden seems to have received the rudiments of his education at Tichmarsh , † and was admit- ted ...
Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes John Dryden Walter Scott. probably have been found to contain the record of our poet's baptism.irdle Dryden seems to have received the rudiments of his education at Tichmarsh , † and was admit- ted ...
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... probably on account of the indulgence of his turn for satire . † He took , however , the degree of Bachelor , in Janu- ary 1653-4 , but neither became Master of Arts , ‡ * The following order is quoted , by Mr Malone , from the ...
... probably on account of the indulgence of his turn for satire . † He took , however , the degree of Bachelor , in Janu- ary 1653-4 , but neither became Master of Arts , ‡ * The following order is quoted , by Mr Malone , from the ...
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... probably originated in those slight disgraces , or perhaps in some other cause of disgust , which we may now search for in vain . In June 1654 , the death of his father , Erasmus Dryden , proved a temporary interruption to our author's ...
... probably originated in those slight disgraces , or perhaps in some other cause of disgust , which we may now search for in vain . In June 1654 , the death of his father , Erasmus Dryden , proved a temporary interruption to our author's ...
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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.