The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... excellent se- minary , of which the celebrated Dr. Busby had been appointed Master in 1638 , ' he was elected The earliest Register of elections into the college of Westminster , now extant , commences in 1663. The age of those elected ...
... excellent se- minary , of which the celebrated Dr. Busby had been appointed Master in 1638 , ' he was elected The earliest Register of elections into the college of Westminster , now extant , commences in 1663. The age of those elected ...
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... excellent DEFENCE OF POESY , against which so furious an attack had been made by the Puritans , that , as he tells us ,. " from the highest estimation of learning it had fallen to be the laughing - stock of children : " a work in which ...
... excellent DEFENCE OF POESY , against which so furious an attack had been made by the Puritans , that , as he tells us ,. " from the highest estimation of learning it had fallen to be the laughing - stock of children : " a work in which ...
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... excellent models which the ancients have left us , in this difficult species of composition : the introduction , particularly , need not shun a com- parison with the best proems of Plato's or Cicero's dialogues . In this piece , written ...
... excellent models which the ancients have left us , in this difficult species of composition : the introduction , particularly , need not shun a com- parison with the best proems of Plato's or Cicero's dialogues . In this piece , written ...
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... excellent . Dr. Johnson has observed that THE Rehearsal , though played in 1671 , " is represented as ridi- culing passages in THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA and ASSIGNATION , which were not published till 1678 ; in MARRIAGE A - LA - MODE ...
... excellent . Dr. Johnson has observed that THE Rehearsal , though played in 1671 , " is represented as ridi- culing passages in THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA and ASSIGNATION , which were not published till 1678 ; in MARRIAGE A - LA - MODE ...
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John Dryden. Juvenal's Tenth Satire , ( a happy foil to our poet's excellent version of the same piece , ) had the au- dacity to assert , that when he taxed Dryden with being the author of MAC - FLECKNOE , " he denied it with all the ...
John Dryden. Juvenal's Tenth Satire , ( a happy foil to our poet's excellent version of the same piece , ) had the au- dacity to assert , that when he taxed Dryden with being the author of MAC - FLECKNOE , " he denied it with all the ...
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Страница xviii - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.
Страница 143 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Страница 390 - He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Страница viii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Страница 479 - ... out of the country with one : however, in spite of my bashfulness and appearance, I used now and then to thrust myself into Will's, to have the pleasure of seeing the most celebrated wits of that time, who used to resort thither.
Страница 134 - I have sent you herewith a libel, in which my own share is not the least. The king having perused it, is no way dissatisfied with his. The author is apparently Mr Dr[yden], his patron, Lord M[ulgrave,] having a panegyric in the midst.
Страница x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Страница 179 - Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry.
Страница 150 - tis for parents to forgive! With how few tears a pardon might be won From nature, pleading for a darling son!
Страница 460 - He was of very easy, I may say, of very pleasing access ; but something slow, and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others. He had something in his nature, that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever.