The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Том 3H. Baldwin and Son, New-Bridge-Street, 1800 |
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... praise of a translation consists in adding new beauties to the piece , thereby to recompense the loss which it sustains by change of language , I shall be willing to be taught better , and to recant . In the mean time it seems to me ...
... praise of a translation consists in adding new beauties to the piece , thereby to recompense the loss which it sustains by change of language , I shall be willing to be taught better , and to recant . In the mean time it seems to me ...
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... praise that beautiful part of the creation , but also to make a sharp satire on their enemies ; to give mankind their own , and to tell them plainly , that from their envy it proceeds that the virtue and great actions of women are pur ...
... praise that beautiful part of the creation , but also to make a sharp satire on their enemies ; to give mankind their own , and to tell them plainly , that from their envy it proceeds that the virtue and great actions of women are pur ...
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... praise of a lady whom he never saw . This , therefore , was evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . the ...
... praise of a lady whom he never saw . This , therefore , was evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . the ...
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... praise , if we take the ancients for our patterns , we are bound by prescription to employ the magnificence of words , and the force of figures , to adorn the sub- limity of thoughts . Isocrates amongst the Gre- cian orators , and ...
... praise , if we take the ancients for our patterns , we are bound by prescription to employ the magnificence of words , and the force of figures , to adorn the sub- limity of thoughts . Isocrates amongst the Gre- cian orators , and ...
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... praise of it is given you by yourself . They who despise the rules of virtue both in their prac- tice and their morals , will think this a very trivial commendation . But I think it the peculiar hap- piness of the Countess of Abingdon ...
... praise of it is given you by yourself . They who despise the rules of virtue both in their prac- tice and their morals , will think this a very trivial commendation . But I think it the peculiar hap- piness of the Countess of Abingdon ...
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Страница 210 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Страница 185 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Страница 210 - 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, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Страница 589 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Страница 588 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Страница 610 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Страница 569 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Страница 557 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose...
Страница 606 - Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs.
Страница 591 - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.