The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Band 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... spirit and political cha- racter of Dryden's contemporaries , must be the excuse for intruding a few pages of political history and personal anecdote ; which , after all , they , whose memory does not require such refreshment , may ...
... spirit and political cha- racter of Dryden's contemporaries , must be the excuse for intruding a few pages of political history and personal anecdote ; which , after all , they , whose memory does not require such refreshment , may ...
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... spirit , and the sweet swallows of salvation . " — " Which way of preaching , ” says Anthony Wood , the reporter of the homily , " was then mostly in fashion , and commended by the generality of scho- lars . " - Athenæ Oxon . vol . I. p ...
... spirit , and the sweet swallows of salvation . " — " Which way of preaching , ” says Anthony Wood , the reporter of the homily , " was then mostly in fashion , and commended by the generality of scho- lars . " - Athenæ Oxon . vol . I. p ...
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... spirit ; and even the muse of Milton was scared from him by the clamour of religious and political controversy , and only returned , like a sincere friend , to cheer the adversity of one who had neglected her during his career of ...
... spirit ; and even the muse of Milton was scared from him by the clamour of religious and political controversy , and only returned , like a sincere friend , to cheer the adversity of one who had neglected her during his career of ...
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... bequeaths his soul to his Creator , with this singular expression of confidence , " the Holy Ghost assuring my spirit , that I am the elect of God . " shire ; third , Erasmus Driden of Tichmarsh , in. 22 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
... bequeaths his soul to his Creator , with this singular expression of confidence , " the Holy Ghost assuring my spirit , that I am the elect of God . " shire ; third , Erasmus Driden of Tichmarsh , in. 22 LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN .
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... spirit was incensed by Cromwell creating a peerage : - " Sir Gilbert Pickering , knight of the old stamp , and of considerable revenue in Northamptonshire ; one of the Long Parliament , and a great stickler in the change of the ...
... spirit was incensed by Cromwell creating a peerage : - " Sir Gilbert Pickering , knight of the old stamp , and of considerable revenue in Northamptonshire ; one of the Long Parliament , and a great stickler in the change of the ...
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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.