The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... poetical tract , of whatever merit , which was hawked through the streets in his time , marking carefully the price and date of the purchase . His collection contains the ear- liest editions of many of our most excellent poems , bound ...
... poetical tract , of whatever merit , which was hawked through the streets in his time , marking carefully the price and date of the purchase . His collection contains the ear- liest editions of many of our most excellent poems , bound ...
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... poetical qualities of a fertile imagination , and frequent happiness of expression , and who claims the highest place of all who ever plied the unprofit- able trade of combining dissimilar and repugnant ideas , was not indeed known to ...
... poetical qualities of a fertile imagination , and frequent happiness of expression , and who claims the highest place of all who ever plied the unprofit- able trade of combining dissimilar and repugnant ideas , was not indeed known to ...
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... poetical fame , by starting the most unnatural images which their imaginations could conceive , or by hunting more common allusions through the most minute and circumstantial particulars and ramifications . Yet , though during the age ...
... poetical fame , by starting the most unnatural images which their imaginations could conceive , or by hunting more common allusions through the most minute and circumstantial particulars and ramifications . Yet , though during the age ...
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... poetical vein had drawn the notice , although accompanied with the gentle censure , of Charles I. , when , in 1647 , he obtained access to his person by the intercession of Hugh Peters . Suckling , whom Dryden has termed " a sprightly ...
... poetical vein had drawn the notice , although accompanied with the gentle censure , of Charles I. , when , in 1647 , he obtained access to his person by the intercession of Hugh Peters . Suckling , whom Dryden has termed " a sprightly ...
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... Poetical Reflections , & c . See vol . IX . p . 272 . Another opponent of our author calls him " A bristled Baptist bred , and then thy strain Immaculate was free from sinful stain . " The Laureat , vol . X. p . 105 . + Upon a monument ...
... Poetical Reflections , & c . See vol . IX . p . 272 . Another opponent of our author calls him " A bristled Baptist bred , and then thy strain Immaculate was free from sinful stain . " The Laureat , vol . X. p . 105 . + Upon a monument ...
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Seite 170 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Seite 169 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Seite 311 - Thy rate and price, and mark thee for a treasure, Hearken unto a Verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good, and make a bait of pleasure : A verse may find him, who a Sermon flies, And turn delight into a Sacrifice.
Seite 313 - But, gracious God ! how well dost thou provide For erring judgments an unerring guide ! Thy throne is darkness in the' abyss of light, A blaze of glory that forbids the sight.
Seite 189 - His style is boisterous and rough-hewn, his rhyme incorrigibly lewd, and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill-sounding. The little talent which he has, is fancy. He sometimes labours with a thought ; but, with the pudder he makes to bring it into the world...
Seite 123 - I boldly answer him that an heroic poet is not tied to a bare representation of what is true, or exceeding probable : but that he may let himself loose to visionary objects, and to the representation of such things as, depending not on sense and therefore not to be comprehended by knowledge, may give him a freer scope for imagination.
Seite 447 - Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment.
Seite 111 - Poets like lovers should be bold and dare, They spoil their business with an over-care. And he who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.
Seite 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Seite 473 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.