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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... whole is airy , animated , and vigorous ; what is little , is gay ; what is great , is splendid . He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to stand high in ...
... whole is airy , animated , and vigorous ; what is little , is gay ; what is great , is splendid . He may be thought to mention himself too frequently ; but while he forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to stand high in ...
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... whole the sum of twelve hundred and forty pounds . From the manner in which these bequests succeed each other in this instrument , it is probable that our author's parents were married about the year 1628 , and that some of his sisters ...
... whole the sum of twelve hundred and forty pounds . From the manner in which these bequests succeed each other in this instrument , it is probable that our author's parents were married about the year 1628 , and that some of his sisters ...
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... whole revenues of those ancient and learned bodies . Nor did they stop here ; but diverse other sorts of Committees and Commissioners were from time to time appointed , as well to perfect the ruin of the clergy , as to purge the ...
... whole revenues of those ancient and learned bodies . Nor did they stop here ; but diverse other sorts of Committees and Commissioners were from time to time appointed , as well to perfect the ruin of the clergy , as to purge the ...
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... whole family swear and rant , Desiring , their ' obin in the lurch being left , 86 66 66 " The thief might be punished for his WILD GAL- LANT . Dryden , who one would have thought had more wit , 66 The censure of every man did disdain ...
... whole family swear and rant , Desiring , their ' obin in the lurch being left , 86 66 66 " The thief might be punished for his WILD GAL- LANT . Dryden , who one would have thought had more wit , 66 The censure of every man did disdain ...
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... whole court brought over to his side , " And favour flow'd upon him like a tide : " " and notwithstanding his subsequent opposition to the Duke , her husband , she seems to have conti- nued her kindness to him to a late period of his ...
... whole court brought over to his side , " And favour flow'd upon him like a tide : " " and notwithstanding his subsequent opposition to the Duke , her husband , she seems to have conti- nued her kindness to him to a late period of his ...
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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.