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, Band 3H. Baldwin and Son, New-Bridge-Street, 1800 |
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... forced to lay hold on a word or syllable : to arraign a man is one thing , and to cavil at him is another . In the midst of an ill - natured gene- ration of scribblers , there is always justice enough left in mankind , to protect good ...
... forced to lay hold on a word or syllable : to arraign a man is one thing , and to cavil at him is another . In the midst of an ill - natured gene- ration of scribblers , there is always justice enough left in mankind , to protect good ...
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... forced from me , by seeing a noble sort of poetry so happily restored by one man , and so grossly copied by almost all the rest . A musical ear , and a great genius , if another Mr. Cowley could arise , in another age may bring it to ...
... forced from me , by seeing a noble sort of poetry so happily restored by one man , and so grossly copied by almost all the rest . A musical ear , and a great genius , if another Mr. Cowley could arise , in another age may bring it to ...
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... evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . the ребу siness , and many troubles , I was forced to DEDICATION ...
... evidently a task undertaken for a pecuniary reward ; and the commission , perhaps , was procured by Mr. Aubrey , a common friend of our author and the Earl of Abingdon . the ребу siness , and many troubles , I was forced to DEDICATION ...
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... forced to defer them till this time . Ovid , going to his banish- ment , and writing from on shipboard to his friends , excused the faults of his poetry by his misfortunes ; and told them , that good verses never flow , but from a ...
... forced to defer them till this time . Ovid , going to his banish- ment , and writing from on shipboard to his friends , excused the faults of his poetry by his misfortunes ; and told them , that good verses never flow , but from a ...
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... forced ; and be- sides , is full of conceipts , points of epigram , and witticisms ; all which are not only below the dig- nity of heroick verse , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them . And those who are ...
... forced ; and be- sides , is full of conceipts , points of epigram , and witticisms ; all which are not only below the dig- nity of heroick verse , but contrary to its nature : Virgil and Homer have not one of them . And those who are ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 210 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Seite 185 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Seite 210 - 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, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Seite 589 - Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. We have our forefathers and great grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's days: their general characters are still remaining in mankind, and even in England, though they are called by other names than those of Monks, and Friars, and Canons, and Lady Abbesses, and Nuns; 'for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.
Seite 588 - The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth.
Seite 610 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Seite 569 - Tales, their humours, their features, and the very dress, as distinctly as if I had supped with them at the Tabard in Southwark.
Seite 557 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject, to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose...
Seite 606 - Achitophel, which he thinks is a little hard on his fanatic patrons in London. But I will deal the more civilly with his two poems, because nothing ill is to be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs.
Seite 591 - If I had desired more to please than to instruct, the Reeve, the Miller, the Shipman, the Merchant, the Sumner, and, above all, the Wife of Bath, in the Prologue to her Tale, would have procured me as many friends and readers as there are beaux and ladies of pleasure in the town.