The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 1A. Constable & Company, 1821 |
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... admired poetry of Queen Elizabeth's age . This was the fatal propensity to false wit ; to sub- stitute , namely , strange and unexpected connec- tions of sound , of of idea , for real humour , and even for the effusions of the stronger ...
... admired poetry of Queen Elizabeth's age . This was the fatal propensity to false wit ; to sub- stitute , namely , strange and unexpected connec- tions of sound , of of idea , for real humour , and even for the effusions of the stronger ...
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... of public taste was hastened by the manners of the re- stored monarch and his courtiers . That pedantry which had dictated the excessive admiration of metaphysical conceits , was not the characteristic of the court LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 45.
... of public taste was hastened by the manners of the re- stored monarch and his courtiers . That pedantry which had dictated the excessive admiration of metaphysical conceits , was not the characteristic of the court LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN . 45.
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... admired . According to the fashion of the times , such copies of occasional verses were rewarded by a gratuity from the person to whom they were ad- dressed ; and poets had not yet learned to think this mode of receiving assistance ...
... admired . According to the fashion of the times , such copies of occasional verses were rewarded by a gratuity from the person to whom they were ad- dressed ; and poets had not yet learned to think this mode of receiving assistance ...
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... admired and copied , be- came a martyr to the raillery of the critics ; and to fill up the measure of shame , the " Paradise Lost " fell still - born from the press . This last in- stance of bad taste had not , it is true , yet taken ...
... admired and copied , be- came a martyr to the raillery of the critics ; and to fill up the measure of shame , the " Paradise Lost " fell still - born from the press . This last in- stance of bad taste had not , it is true , yet taken ...
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... admiration of Davenant had not decreased . Indeed , he , long afterwards , bore tes- timony to that author's quick and piercing ima- gination ; which at once produced thoughts re- mote , new , and surprising , such as could not easily ...
... admiration of Davenant had not decreased . Indeed , he , long afterwards , bore tes- timony to that author's quick and piercing ima- gination ; which at once produced thoughts re- mote , new , and surprising , such as could not easily ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 8 - England* began first that language; all our ladies were then his scholars ; and that beauty in court which could not parley Euphuism...
Página 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.