The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...W. Miller, 1808 |
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... Hector a coward . In Dryden's time , the prejudice against this unfortunate female was probably forgotten , as her history had become less popular . There appears , however , some- thing too nice and fastidious in the critical rule ...
... Hector a coward . In Dryden's time , the prejudice against this unfortunate female was probably forgotten , as her history had become less popular . There appears , however , some- thing too nice and fastidious in the critical rule ...
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... Hector and Troilus is very impressive , and no bad imitation of that betwixt Brutus and Cassius , with which Dryden seems to have been so much charmed , and which he has repeatedly striven to emulate . The parting of Hector and ...
... Hector and Troilus is very impressive , and no bad imitation of that betwixt Brutus and Cassius , with which Dryden seems to have been so much charmed , and which he has repeatedly striven to emulate . The parting of Hector and ...
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... Hector , Troilus , Pandarus , and Thersites , and added that of Andromache . After this , I made , with no small trouble , an order and connection of all the scenes ; removing them from the places where they were in- artificially set ...
... Hector , Troilus , Pandarus , and Thersites , and added that of Andromache . After this , I made , with no small trouble , an order and connection of all the scenes ; removing them from the places where they were in- artificially set ...
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... Hector . I will conclude my re- flections on it , with a passage of Longinus , con- cerning Plato's imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate ...
... Hector . I will conclude my re- flections on it , with a passage of Longinus , con- cerning Plato's imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate ...
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... Hector is always represented as having been treacherously slain . HECTOR , TROILUS , DRAMATIS PERSONE . Sons of PRIAM . PRIAM , King of Troy . ENEAS , a Trojan Warrior . PANDARUS , Uncle to CRESSIDA . CALCHAS , a Trojan Priest , and ...
... Hector is always represented as having been treacherously slain . HECTOR , TROILUS , DRAMATIS PERSONE . Sons of PRIAM . PRIAM , King of Troy . ENEAS , a Trojan Warrior . PANDARUS , Uncle to CRESSIDA . CALCHAS , a Trojan Priest , and ...
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Achilles Adrastus Æneas Agam Agamemnon Ajax Alph arms Bert Bertran betwixt blood Brain Brainsick Calchas colonel confess Creon Cressida dare daughter dear death Dioc Diom Diomede Dryden Edip Edipus Enter Eurydice Exeunt Exit eyes fate father Aldo fear fool friar Gero ghost give gods Gomez Grecian Hæmon hand hast hear heart heaven Hect Hector honour Jocasta king Laius leave Limb Limberham look lord madam Menelaus mistress murder never Oedip Pand Pandarus passion Patro Patroclus Phor Phorbas pity play Pleas poet Polybus Pray Priam prince queen Raym revenge rogue Saint SCENE Sophocles soul speak sure sword tell Thebans Thebes thee there's Thers Thersites thou art thought Tiresias Torrismond tragedy Trick Tricksy Troil TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Trojan Troy twas Ulys wife Wood Woodall word wretched
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Страница 229 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue: if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
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Страница 264 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Страница 249 - The first rule which Bossu prescribes to the writer of an heroic poem, and which holds too by the same reason in all dramatic poetry, is to make the moral of the work, that is, to lay down to yourself what that precept of morality shall be, which you would insinuate into the people...
Страница 261 - I. cannot deny that he has his failings; but they are not so much in the passions themselves as in his manner of expression: he often obscures his meaning by his words, and sometimes makes it unintelligible. I will not say of so great a poet that he distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity; but I may venture to maintain that the fury of his fancy often transported him beyond the bounds of judgment, either in coining of new words and phrases, or racking words which were in use into...
Страница 313 - Can life be a blessing, Or worth the possessing, Can life be a blessing, if love were away? Ah, no! though our love all night keep us waking, And though he torment us with cares all the day, Yet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking; There's an hour at the last, there's an hour to repay. In...
Страница 229 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Страница 194 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Страница 252 - A character, or that which distinguishes one man from all others, cannot be supposed to consist of one particular virtue, or vice, or passion only; but 'tis a composition of qualities which are not contrary to one another in the same person...
Страница 253 - Tis one of the excellencies of Shakespeare that the manners of his persons are generally apparent, and you see their bent and inclinations.