The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Том 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... stage for which they wrote . The drama , it is true , was the branch of poetry most success- fully cultivated ; for it afforded the most ready appeal to the public taste . The number of thea- tres then open in all parts of the city ...
... stage for which they wrote . The drama , it is true , was the branch of poetry most success- fully cultivated ; for it afforded the most ready appeal to the public taste . The number of thea- tres then open in all parts of the city ...
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... stage or other ; and he was neither tired nor disgusted by the difficulties , and disagreeable observances , which must now be necessarily undergone by every candidate for dramatic laurels . But , although during the reigns of Queen ...
... stage or other ; and he was neither tired nor disgusted by the difficulties , and disagreeable observances , which must now be necessarily undergone by every candidate for dramatic laurels . But , although during the reigns of Queen ...
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... stage where I now stand , I have brought you some fine biscuits , baked in the oven of charity , carefully conserved for the chickens of the church , the sparrows of the spirit , and the sweet swallows of salvation . " — " Which way of ...
... stage where I now stand , I have brought you some fine biscuits , baked in the oven of charity , carefully conserved for the chickens of the church , the sparrows of the spirit , and the sweet swallows of salvation . " — " Which way of ...
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... stage repre- sentations , which at once silenced the theatres , and their contempt for profane learning , which degraded the universities , all operated , during the civil wars and succeeding usurpation , to check the pursuits of the ...
... stage repre- sentations , which at once silenced the theatres , and their contempt for profane learning , which degraded the universities , all operated , during the civil wars and succeeding usurpation , to check the pursuits of the ...
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... stage had lost in dramatic composition , was , in some degree , supplied by the increasing splendour of decoration , and the favour of the court . A private theatre , called the Cockpit , was maintained at Whitehall , in which plays ...
... stage had lost in dramatic composition , was , in some degree , supplied by the increasing splendour of decoration , and the favour of the court . A private theatre , called the Cockpit , was maintained at Whitehall , in which plays ...
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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.