The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition . Of our former poets , the greatest dramatist wrote without rules , conducted through life and nature וורון ...
... father of English criticism , as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition . Of our former poets , the greatest dramatist wrote without rules , conducted through life and nature וורון ...
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... father , wrote - Driden , and so the poet's name is spelt in the Register of Trinity College , Cambridge , and in the Uni- versity Register . He was , I believe , the first who altered the spelling of the name to Dryden , which is found ...
... father , wrote - Driden , and so the poet's name is spelt in the Register of Trinity College , Cambridge , and in the Uni- versity Register . He was , I believe , the first who altered the spelling of the name to Dryden , which is found ...
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... father , Henry Pickering , being his younger son . The age too of Henry's elder brother , Sir John Pickering , agrees with this statement ; for Sir John was born in April , 1583 , as appears from the office found on the death of his father ...
... father , Henry Pickering , being his younger son . The age too of Henry's elder brother , Sir John Pickering , agrees with this statement ; for Sir John was born in April , 1583 , as appears from the office found on the death of his father ...
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... father having been some time Rector of that pa- rish but the history of his preferment does not exactly suit with this account ; for Mr. Pickering was not possessed of the benefice till sixteen years hundred families , and comprehending ...
... father having been some time Rector of that pa- rish but the history of his preferment does not exactly suit with this account ; for Mr. Pickering was not possessed of the benefice till sixteen years hundred families , and comprehending ...
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... father should not have obtained his first degree in arts till he was near four - and - twenty . I suspect he was ori- ginally bred at Cambridge . He was created a Baronet in 1619 , and died aged 79 , May 30 , ( not 22d , as said on his ...
... father should not have obtained his first degree in arts till he was near four - and - twenty . I suspect he was ori- ginally bred at Cambridge . He was created a Baronet in 1619 , and died aged 79 , May 30 , ( not 22d , as said on his ...
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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.