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 1, Брой 1T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... copy , therefore , that Essay has been printed . In a Letter to his bookseller he mentions , that , previously to his Translation of Virgil being sent a second time to the press , he had spent nine days in reviewing it . As it was ...
... copy , therefore , that Essay has been printed . In a Letter to his bookseller he mentions , that , previously to his Translation of Virgil being sent a second time to the press , he had spent nine days in reviewing it . As it was ...
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... copy in the Museum ; one to Samuel Pepys , Esq . , from the original in the Pepysian Collection in Magdalene College , Cambridge ; one to Charles Montague , afterwards Earl of Halifax , from the original in my possession ; and sixteen ...
... copy in the Museum ; one to Samuel Pepys , Esq . , from the original in the Pepysian Collection in Magdalene College , Cambridge ; one to Charles Montague , afterwards Earl of Halifax , from the original in my possession ; and sixteen ...
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... copy of English as well as Latin verses . The latter being short , I subjoin them : Pax regit Augusti , quem vicit Julius , orbem ; Ille sago factus clarior , ille togâ : Hos sua Roma vocat magnos , et numina credit , Hic quod sit mundi ...
... copy of English as well as Latin verses . The latter being short , I subjoin them : Pax regit Augusti , quem vicit Julius , orbem ; Ille sago factus clarior , ille togâ : Hos sua Roma vocat magnos , et numina credit , Hic quod sit mundi ...
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... Copy of the Letter from his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell , sent to the Members of Parliament called to take upon them the trust of the government of this Commonwealth , which began on Monday the 4th of June 1653 with the several ...
... Copy of the Letter from his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell , sent to the Members of Parliament called to take upon them the trust of the government of this Commonwealth , which began on Monday the 4th of June 1653 with the several ...
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... copy of it , opens with the following lines , which I subjoin in confirmation of the fact stated above , and as a specimen of his Grace's genuine uncrutched poetry : knowledged by his contemporaries to have pos sessed much good 36 THE ...
... copy of it , opens with the following lines , which I subjoin in confirmation of the fact stated above , and as a specimen of his Grace's genuine uncrutched poetry : knowledged by his contemporaries to have pos sessed much good 36 THE ...
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Страница 304 - And weltering in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies With not a friend to close his eyes.
Страница 257 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy! — Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Страница 145 - 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.
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 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 363 - Psalms ; whence you may find, that we don't think a poet worth Christian burial. The pomp of the ceremony was a kind of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras, than him; because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque : but he was an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary fashion ; for I do believe there was never such another burial seen. The oration, indeed, was great and ingenious, worthy the subject, and like the author; whose prescriptions can restore the living, and his pen embalm...
Страница 140 - He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers...
Страница 62 - Neander, to be in company together; three of them persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names, that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse.
Страница 558 - ... of our especial grace, certain knowledge,- and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do...
Страница viii - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition.