The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations, Том 1, Част 1Cadell and Davies, 1800 - 442 страници |
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... means of supplying them . That which is easy at one time was difficult at another . Dry- den at least imported his science , and gave his country what it wanted before ; or rather , he imported only the materials , and manufactured them ...
... means of supplying them . That which is easy at one time was difficult at another . Dry- den at least imported his science , and gave his country what it wanted before ; or rather , he imported only the materials , and manufactured them ...
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... means constant to him- self . His defence and desertion of dramatick rhyme is generally known . Spence , in his Remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dryden's preface to the Æneid , in ...
... means constant to him- self . His defence and desertion of dramatick rhyme is generally known . Spence , in his Remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dryden's preface to the Æneid , in ...
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... means implicitly to be relied on , and before this narra- tive is concluded , more than one instance will be given of their inaccuracy ; -and further , that for the date men- tioned in the text , and followed by all the biographers of ...
... means implicitly to be relied on , and before this narra- tive is concluded , more than one instance will be given of their inaccuracy ; -and further , that for the date men- tioned in the text , and followed by all the biographers of ...
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... means of discovering . The precise time , therefore , of our author's birth must still remain involved in obscurity . But though we derive no aid either from his tomb or parish - register , or the parochial lists of baptisms trans ...
... means of discovering . The precise time , therefore , of our author's birth must still remain involved in obscurity . But though we derive no aid either from his tomb or parish - register , or the parochial lists of baptisms trans ...
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... means to blacken the character of the triumphant poet , by the wit and acrimony of whose melodious verses Shaftesbury and his partisans , yet writhing with smart and vexation , were held up to publick scorn . In our own time we have ...
... means to blacken the character of the triumphant poet , by the wit and acrimony of whose melodious verses Shaftesbury and his partisans , yet writhing with smart and vexation , were held up to publick scorn . In our own time we have ...
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Страница 392 - 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 xviii - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. 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 304 - Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse, Soft pity to infuse ; He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Страница 153 - One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it.
Страница 525 - is Tonson. You will take care not to depart before he goes away : for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him ; and if you leave me unprotected, I must suffer all the rudeness to which his resentment can prompt his tongue.
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 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 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 303 - The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length, with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
Страница 257 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast from her sacred store Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.