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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... represented him as an anabaptist , and Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , in the following lines makes it a question whether he ever was christened : " And though no wit can royal blood infuse , " No more than melt a mother to a Muse ...
... represented him as an anabaptist , and Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , in the following lines makes it a question whether he ever was christened : " And though no wit can royal blood infuse , " No more than melt a mother to a Muse ...
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... English Baronets were created under the great seal of England , for the reduction of Ulster in Ireland , so the Scottish Baronets were created under the great seal of 1 of 1640 he represented the county of Northamp- ton . 28 THE LIFE OF.
... English Baronets were created under the great seal of England , for the reduction of Ulster in Ireland , so the Scottish Baronets were created under the great seal of 1 of 1640 he represented the county of Northamp- ton . 28 THE LIFE OF.
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... represented the county of Northamp- ton . Being a staunch adherent to what the fana- tical saints of those days called the good old cause , having taken the Covenant , and warmly espoused all the measures pursued by the republican party ...
... represented the county of Northamp- ton . Being a staunch adherent to what the fana- tical saints of those days called the good old cause , having taken the Covenant , and warmly espoused all the measures pursued by the republican party ...
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... represented the executive power . When the Restoration took place , it appears from the Com- mons ' Journals that he presented a Petition to the House , and after debate , it was resolved that he should be " excepted out of the Act of ...
... represented the executive power . When the Restoration took place , it appears from the Com- mons ' Journals that he presented a Petition to the House , and after debate , it was resolved that he should be " excepted out of the Act of ...
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... represented by his enemies to have been at this time a mere literary drudge under Herring- man , an eminent bookseller ; to have been so poor as to be obliged to dine at a threepenny ordinary ; ' and to have continued in this state till ...
... represented by his enemies to have been at this time a mere literary drudge under Herring- man , an eminent bookseller ; to have been so poor as to be obliged to dine at a threepenny ordinary ; ' and to have continued in this state till ...
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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.