The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... PLOT . P. 306. n . l . 11. After Muse , add - THE TORY POETS . P. 307. n . Since this note was written , I have met with THE WHIP AND KEY . Some account of that poem may be found in the Life of Dryden , p . 158 . P. 310. n . Sir George ...
... PLOT . P. 306. n . l . 11. After Muse , add - THE TORY POETS . P. 307. n . Since this note was written , I have met with THE WHIP AND KEY . Some account of that poem may be found in the Life of Dryden , p . 158 . P. 310. n . Sir George ...
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... plot is laid open , the spectators may rest satisfied , that every cause was powerful enough to produce the effect it had ; and that the whole chain of them was with such due order linked together , that the first accident would ...
... plot is laid open , the spectators may rest satisfied , that every cause was powerful enough to produce the effect it had ; and that the whole chain of them was with such due order linked together , that the first accident would ...
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... Plotting and writing in this kind , are certainly more troublesome employments than many which signify more , and are of greater moment in the world : The fancy , memory , and judgment are then extended ( like so many limbs ) upon the ...
... Plotting and writing in this kind , are certainly more troublesome employments than many which signify more , and are of greater moment in the world : The fancy , memory , and judgment are then extended ( like so many limbs ) upon the ...
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... plot and language as I ought ; but for the latter , I have endeavoured to write English , as near as I could distinguish it from the tongue of pedants , and that of affected travellers ; only I am sorry , that , speaking so noble a ...
... plot and language as I ought ; but for the latter , I have endeavoured to write English , as near as I could distinguish it from the tongue of pedants , and that of affected travellers ; only I am sorry , that , speaking so noble a ...
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... plots , though certainly short of what we have seen in some of Mr. Jon- son's plays ; and for their wit , especially Plautus , I suppose it suited much better in those days than it would do in ours ; for were their plays strictly ...
... plots , though certainly short of what we have seen in some of Mr. Jon- son's plays ; and for their wit , especially Plautus , I suppose it suited much better in those days than it would do in ours ; for were their plays strictly ...
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Страница 95 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Страница 99 - He was deeply conversant in the ancients, both Greek and Latin, and he borrowed boldly from them : there is scarce a poet or historian among the Roman authors of those times whom he has not translated in Sejanus and Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Страница 38 - Crites himself did not much oppose it: and every one was willing to acknowledge how much our poesy is improved, by the happiness of some writers yet living ; who first taught us to mould our thoughts into easy and significant words, to retrench the superfluities of expression, and to make our rhyme so properly a part of the verse, that it should never mislead the sense, but itself be led and governed by it.
Страница 193 - Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare : besides many of the rest, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour Lost, Measure for Measure...
Страница 142 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Страница 242 - His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her.
Страница 66 - ... stuffs; and two actions, that is, two plays, carried on together, to the confounding of the audience; who, before they are warm in their concernments for one part, are diverted to another; and by that means espouse the interest of neither.
Страница 30 - The drift of the ensuing discourse is chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain, as to teach others an art, which they understand much better than myself.
Страница 122 - I answer you, therefore, by distinguishing betwixt what is nearest to the nature of comedy, — which is the imitation of common persons and ordinary speaking, — and what is nearest the nature of a serious play. "This last is indeed the representation of nature, but 'tis nature wrought up to an higher pitch.
Страница 211 - The desire of imitating so great a pattern first awakened the dull and heavy spirits of the English from their natural reservedness ; loosened them from their stiff forms of conversation, and made them easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free; and the fire of the English wit, which was before stifled under a constrained, melancholy way of breeding, began first to display its force, by mixing the solidity of our nation with the air and gaiety...